Posted on 01/27/2025 9:21:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Is there some kind of implosion going on in Colombia?
Hours after President Trump announced sanctions on the onetime ally for refusing to accept two planeloads of repatriated illegals after agreeing to take them, Colombia's far-left president, Gustavo Petro, now has massive street protests from the locals angry over the foolish fight he picked.
🚨BREAKING —> Following today’s pathetic decision by socialist President @petrogustavo, the Colombian people are organizing massive protests demanding his ouster!
— Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez (@RepCarlos) January 26, 2025
The locals have very good reasons for being angry:.
The U.S. imports 17% of its coffee from Colombia. But 40% of all of Colombia's exports go to the U.S. A 50% tariff is going to hurt them more than a reciprocal tariff will hurt us. It comes just as Valentine's Day is around the corner, which is probably Colombian flower farmers' biggest payday of the year. Say goodbye to that if these tariffs go through.
El 17% de las importaciones de café de EEUU vienen de Colombia. Pero lo que es más pesado: el 40% de las exportaciones de café de Colombia son hacia EEUU.
Y Colombia es el principal proveedor de flores de Estados Unidos. A pocos dĂas de San ValentĂn. — Orlando Avendaño (@OrlvndoA) January 26, 2025
Meanwhile, Colombia's top export is not coffee or flowers, but oil -- and almost all of it goes to the U.S. A 50% tariff would be disastrous.
He seems to be sacrificing the entire Colombian economy for the sake of a few criminals, which is an amazing trade:
Gustavo Petro es la peor desgracia para Colombia. Quiere generar caos con los Estados Unidos para romper relaciones diplomáticas, causándole un daño enorme a los colombianos.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Really? And where does Cocaine rank?
“You can use your economic power and arrogance to attempt a coup, as you did with Salvador Allende (in Chile). But I will die standing by my principles.… I’ve endured torture, and I will endure you.
You may kill me, but I will survive in my people, who existed long before yours, in the Americas.
You don’t like our freedom, fine. I won’t shake hands with white enslavers.”
pic.twitter.com/k33xZtDKpz — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 26, 2025
I’m sure Humper would be glad to answer that. Even trade a painting.
Is it Trump or is it he other problems they face?
Could it be Trump is NEEDED $hit disturber down there? It will get contagious.
First thought when I saw the above picture was that they were repatriating “immigrants” without parachutes.
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TRANSLATION OF STATEMENT FROM PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA
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Posted on 1/26/2025, 4:13:17 PM by frogjerk
TRANSLATION OF STATEMENT FROM PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA.
Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.
I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller.
I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country.
I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian.
So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano BuendĂa, of which I am one, perhaps the last.
You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.
You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid.
They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else.
Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.
Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs.
My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.
You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called BolĂvar, opposes us.
Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.
I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA.
Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world.
I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness.
FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.
I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same.
Hahahaha...there was video of him walking hand in hand with a transvestite recently!
Is he doing the Sieg Heil salute?
It can’t be, he’s favored by the left-wing press. Only right-wingers can be Nazis /sarc
These clowns all seem to have the same instruction manual.
Im sure these dictators have something to worry about in trump
A white slavery??!!! For sending your citizens back to their own country????
Maybe in bizarro world
DEAD MAN WALKING??????
NOT HIS WIFE-—AN “EXTRA”
No raised communist fist.
Petro is a typical Leftis liar. The United States has plenty of people who were in the Americas long before Columbus, and Columbia has lots of people whose ancestors came from Europ.e
Petro is playing the racist card, but it has long since been maxed out.
Columbia became a country in 1830, over 50 years after the United States became a separat country.
His relatives are Spanish who were the original slavers in the new world.
Well, they don’t want them either.
Can’t say as I blame them.
As a total aside, Colombian babies are probably the cutest babies I have EVER seen.
P.S. Ok. You win President Trump. I’ll come and get the criminals you want out of your country. Sorry to have disturbed you. Sincerely, Petro
P.P.S. Will you be my Valentine?
“white slaver”
when i went to collage in 1966, there were three races...I took a course in Race Relations.
Now there are more races. What happened........
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