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Colombia's President Gustavo Petro arrives at the opening ceremony of COP16, a United Nations' biodiversity conference, in Cali, Colombia, October 20, 2024
THE US has claimed victory in a showdown with Colombia over accepting flights of deported migrants from the US.
This came hours after President Donald Trump threatened steep tariffs on imports and other sanctions on the South American country.
The two countries clashed on Sunday over the deportation of migrants and imposed tariffs on each other’s goods.
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance