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Thousands of Colombians protest leftist leader Petro who jacked with Trump over deportation flights; Petro spews crazed rants on X
American Thinker ^ | 01/27/2025 | Monica Showalter

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.

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.

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.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: colombia; commiefag; deportation; fafo; illegals; immigration; petro; protest; trumpmas
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RE: Meanwhile, Colombia's top export is not coffee or flowers, but oil

Really? And where does Cocaine rank?

1 posted on 01/27/2025 9:21:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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Far-left Colombian President Gustavo Petro launches a furious tirade against Trump, calling him a “white slaver”

“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

2 posted on 01/27/2025 9:24:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m sure Humper would be glad to answer that. Even trade a painting.


3 posted on 01/27/2025 9:26:54 AM PST by Track9 (Make haste slowly. )
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


4 posted on 01/27/2025 9:27:33 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: SeekAndFind

First thought when I saw the above picture was that they were repatriating “immigrants” without parachutes.


5 posted on 01/27/2025 9:28:28 AM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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This might have made sense in Spanish. But it did not translate well. Not at all.

 

TRANSLATION OF STATEMENT FROM PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA
https://x.com ^ | Jan 26 2025 | President Gustavo Petro

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.

6 posted on 01/27/2025 9:28:58 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Man made Climate Change is Real. Cal. Officials responsible for the fires just proved it.)
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Hahahaha...there was video of him walking hand in hand with a transvestite recently!


7 posted on 01/27/2025 9:29:19 AM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is he doing the Sieg Heil salute?


8 posted on 01/27/2025 9:33:09 AM PST by OLDCU
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It can’t be, he’s favored by the left-wing press. Only right-wingers can be Nazis /sarc


9 posted on 01/27/2025 9:34:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

These clowns all seem to have the same instruction manual.

10 posted on 01/27/2025 9:36:08 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Im sure these dictators have something to worry about in trump


11 posted on 01/27/2025 9:44:44 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: SeekAndFind

A white slavery??!!! For sending your citizens back to their own country????

Maybe in bizarro world


12 posted on 01/27/2025 9:53:58 AM PST by tophat9000 (Tophat90000)
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To: SeekAndFind

DEAD MAN WALKING??????


13 posted on 01/27/2025 9:56:03 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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NOT HIS WIFE-—AN “EXTRA”


14 posted on 01/27/2025 9:57:31 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: OLDCU

No raised communist fist.


15 posted on 01/27/2025 10:07:18 AM PST by riverrunner
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To: SeekAndFind
"You may kill me, but I will survive in my people, who existed long before yours, in the Americas."

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.

16 posted on 01/27/2025 10:14:45 AM PST by marktwain
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His relatives are Spanish who were the original slavers in the new world.


17 posted on 01/27/2025 10:29:40 AM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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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.


18 posted on 01/27/2025 10:33:24 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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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?


19 posted on 01/27/2025 10:34:16 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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“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........


20 posted on 01/27/2025 10:44:46 AM PST by Karoo
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