“Your blockade does not scare me… I am informed that you’re imposing a 50% import tariff on us; I do the same,” the Colombian President wrote on social media.
This is yesterday’s news.
Colombia quickly rolled over. Petro meekly said Trump told him the deportees would be treated with dignity.
So, like, 30 minutes of “resistance”. Hasta la sumisión siempre…
Not really. They had said you need to feed them and give them water, they can’t come here starving or dehydrated that isn’t how you release prisoners anywhere. Their president said he would send his plane instead of a military transport and would transport them so long as they pass medical and are feed and hydrated.
Trump threw a fit long enough for the media to create the coverage about it and then the coverage about how “Colombia rolled over” by offering the same offer again but this time America gave in. Trump got cucked and the only country reporting it this biased way seems to be Germany and America.
I hope that’s correct.
So far as I can tell it is.
Think of it the opposite way and it also makes facial sense as well. If someone demanded to fly plane loads of randos on military flights into the United States they would immediately be intercepted by f16s, forced to land and that their refusal would result in immediate destruction of their plane. You know border security because of course.
The only article that I could find where the source wasn’t explicitly “the whitehouse says” was BBC where they just said the Columbia hasn’t affirmed that they changed the terms after the tariff threat but also didn’t deny that they did.
They won’t, admitting they refused changes would shatter Trump’s fragile ego and get them tariffs again which benefits no one.
Colombia maintained well before Trump decided to do deportations that the US could send people back, humanely. Trump tried to do it inhumanely, so Colombia refused the planes and immediately dispatched the presidential aircraft to pick up deportees in a humane manner.
Trump threw a hissyfit, threatened tarriffs, Colombia reiterated that all the US needs to do is feed the deportees and not transport them cuffed in military aircraft (same thing Brazil is complaining about), and Trump relented. It’s the only explanation that fits the full timeline here.
It’s a total political humiliation for Trump in a sane world, but here we are. He just bullshits his way through.
so Trump rolled over, and you see that as Colombia rolling over.
This whole adventure does seem like a win-win though.
Trump and his supporters won because Trump convinced them he got them something.
Colombia won because they didn’t have to actually give away anything, but coffee prices did rise even further. If they can get 25% more for their coffee, then that’s a cool extra billion on a $4B export.
BRICS also won because they are quickly becoming a more attractive trade organization than the WTO.
I guess only coffee drinking American libs got owned.
Colombia won because they didn’t have to actually give away anything, but coffee prices did rise even further. If they can get 25% more for their coffee, then that’s a cool extra billion on a $4B export.
I doubt it’ll be Colombia getting these profits. It seems more likely that American importers will pocket the difference.
Only if those American importers had the foresight to buy coffee, or coffee options, earlier.
What happened now was that American importers and speculators immediately scrambled to buy coffee to avoid tariffs and this drove up global prices.
Oh I see. That makes sense.
Guess after my Colombian stash runs out, I’ll find something different.
What did the deported people win?
They’re no longer in the USA
As a coffee-drinking American lib, I drink Rwandan anyway. Bring it on.
This trade war is what sparked a depression
Good Columbia!
