Sunday was another moment in the early days of the Trump Administration, after a tariff fight emerged between the United States and Colombia. The dispute began when Colombian President Gustavo Petro refused to allow U.
If Trump had carried out the threat of tariffs, the prices of many goods imported from Colombia could have increased, including coffee, flowers and crude oil.
The Trump administration had added extra inspections for passengers from Colombia as part of a pressure campaign. The effects lingered into Wednesday.
"I don't like to travel to the U.S. very much, it's a bit boring," said Gustavo Petro, addressing his remarks to Trump in a lengthy and wandering rant
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 25% tax on imports from Colombia comes at a most inauspicious time: The wrangling over the South American country’s willingness to accept flights carrying deported immigrants is flaring up ...
By Cynthia Michelle Aranguren Hernández Colombia's President Gustavo Petro has mounted an unprecedented challenge to US President Donald Trump’s hawkish immigration policy, setting off a now-resolved diplomatic crisis whose fallout threatens to upend the longstanding alliance between the two nations.
Colombia has not recognized Maduro’s victory, but it also has not cut diplomatic relations with the country. Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli, the Andes director at the Washington Office on Latin America ...
The U.S. Army described the helicopter as a UH-60 Blackhawk based at Fort Belvoir in Virginia. The helicopter was on a training flight. Military aircraft frequently conduct training flights in and around the congested and heavily-restricted airspace around the nation’s capital for familiarization and continuity of government planning.
Colombia announced on Sunday the resolution of a diplomatic impasse with the United States caused by President Gustavo Petro's decision to block two deportation flights until the deportees were treated with dignity.
Three U.S. Army soldiers were onboard a BlackHawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
Washington and Bogotá have for years had a bilateral agreement allowing for regular deportation flights that have, until now, gone to Colombia at the rate of at least twice a week without problems.