Republican listed, among the measures, ‘25%’ tariffs, travel restrictions and “immediate” revocation of visas for colombian government officials
The president of ,, announced on Sunday (26) that will apply heavy import fares and other sanctions to, after his homologist refuse to receive military planes with deported migrants. “The refusal of these flights by Petro endangered national security and public security in the United States, so I ordered my administration to immediately take the following urgent and decisive retaliation measures,” Trump published on his platform, Truth Social . The Republican listed, among the measures, “25%” tariffs, travel restrictions and “immediate” revocation of visas for colombian government officials.
The Colombian government refused to accept the flights with migrant deported based on the reports of Brazilians who arrived in the handcuffed country and accusing US immigration agents to have acted aggressively, which made President Gustavo Petro refused the deportation flights to your territory. In response to the situation, Itamaraty requested clarifications from the United States government about what he classified as “degrading treatment” of Brazilians during the deportation process. The migrants reported having faced aggression and threats, and remained handcuffed for 50 hours under inadequate conditions without air conditioning. The deported Brazilians arrived in Brazil on Friday night (24). They stayed in Manuas, Amazonas, for a day due to failures in the United States aircraft. The group only arrived on Saturday (27) to Belo Horizonte.
*With information from AFP
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