China's envoy to Colombia seemed to take advantage of the weekend's public dispute between Colombian President Gustavo Petro and US President Donald Trump over immigration and deportation policies to promote Beijing's good ties with Bogota.
Shortly after last November’s election, Trump threatened China, Mexico, and Canada with 10% and 25% tariffs, respectively.
Analysts say that to diversify exports, the Petro government must modernize outdated customs processes and combat the lack of interest among business owners
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.
It took just hours for President Donald Trump to convince Colombian President Gustavo Petro to reverse course and take deportation flights from the U.S.
Colombia isn’t the first nation to have materially countered Trump’s deportation plans. Still, its tiff with the U.S. is indicative of some lesser-known trade entanglements between North and South America—and of the potential for the Trump administration to hurt Americans’ pocketbooks in its craven pursuit of mass deportations.
A recent fight over between President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro has brought renewed attention to the policies of the former Marxist guerilla whose priorities often run counter to Washington,
Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that Colombia was suspending permission for previously authorized U.S. deportation flights to land in Colombia. Ostensibly driving Petro’s action were concerns that Colombian nationals were not being treated with respect during the deportation process because they were being transported by military aircraft.
President Donald Trump’s threat to tax imports from Colombia comes not long before Valentine's Day, and Colombia is America’s No. 1 foreign source of cut flowers.
Nearly 70 people were killed in an aircraft collision Wednesday night near Washington, D.C. Are flights being delayed or canceled?
By Simon Lewis and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -When Marco Rubio arrives in Latin America this weekend on his first foreign trip as Donald Trump's secretary of state, he'll find a region reeling from the new administration's shock-and-awe approach to diplomacy.