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Well it seems that despite the brave face and fiery rhetoric from Colombia, they have completely folded on the key issue towards the United States, the issue of the freedom of navigation for US military aircraft in Colombia. United States military aircraft are allowed to fly into Colombia unrestricted, including to deport migrants, according to a statement from the White House. In exchange, the sanctions and tarrifs on Colombia are placed in reserve, and the visa restrictions will be lifted as soon as the first US plane lands. Colombian president Gustavo Petro reposted this statement on twitter, before quickly deleting the repost.

Axios News: Trump pausing Colombia tariffs after migrants deal, White House says, 27 January 2025

So now the question is what does this mean for México, will they also fold to the US and allow US military transport aircraft to fly deportation flights inside their airspace? Colombia only managed to resist for half a day, and got made an example of quickly. The warning is loud and clear. The United States is prepared to follow through on their threats. Trump is actually serious about this, or at least playing the part. México don't really have many options here. I also think these kind of power moves will be very popular amongst the average US citizen, so there can be no reliance on any internal resistance to stop it.

seems like colombia folded?

https://xcancel.com/spectatorindex/status/1883720551207997521

smh condos in miami continue winning

Latin America is going to go through hell for at least the next four years

Just remembered they’re still in space

https://www.cnet.com/science/stranded-nasa-astronaut-on-the-iss-takes-a-spacewalk-with-another-planned/

As clansman in chief quickly realizes the instability of the status quo and goes for the genocide accelerator:

You’re talking about probably a million and a half people. And we just clean out that whole thing. Over the centuries it’s had many, many conflicts, that site. And I don’t know, something has to happen.

Some people were paying attention to the 1.5 million number. Out of 2.4 million 16 months ago.

One a more hopeful note, if what I read is true, and the Arab regimes are not that stable, things could escalate very quickly if he tries to use the finesse he's bringing to his mandate.

Since Columbia is probably getting 25-50% of tariffs on its Exports to the USA this is a chard with some of the stuff they sell to the US

the most important seem to be Coffee which makes up about 20% of total US imports and Flowers which i think someone here mention that Roses from Colombia are around 90% of USA imports

Jeremy Corbyn’s cat, El Gato has passed away

He was less popular with much of the wider media, and was – like me – subject to intense activity of the right-wing press who wished to smear his character. He was very much of the Left, and wanted a socially just and fair society.

Indeed, at one time he brought a stray cat into his orbit, sharing his shelter and food.

As this shows, El Gato was very empathetic to the needs of a homeless cat.

President Petro put out this I translated to English

Trump, I don't really like traveling to the USA, it's a bit boring, but I confess there are commendable things, I like to go to the Black neighborhoods of Washington, there I saw an entire fight in the capital of the USA between Blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed silly to me, because they should unite.

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, in the history of the USA, are memorable and I follow them. They were murdered for being labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are inside the USA as within my own country.

I don't like your oil, Trump, it will end the human species because of greed. Perhaps someday, over a glass of whiskey that I would accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I am not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know someone stubborn, that's me, period. You can with your economic power and your arrogance try to stage a coup d'état like they did with Allende. But I will die upholding my principles, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want enslavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you cannot accompany me, I will go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand, this is the land of yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of whom I am one of them, perhaps the last one.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my people who are before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, of the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.

You do not like our freedom, fine. I do not shake hands with white slavers. I shake the hands of white libertarians, heirs of Lincoln and of the young Black and white farmers of the USA, before whose tombs I wept and prayed in a battlefield, which I reached after walking mountains of the Italian Tuscany and after saving myself from Covid.

They are the USA and before them I kneel, before no one else.

Overthrow me president and the Americas and humanity will respond to you.

Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, civilization at that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, civilization at that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the resistant Blacks turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all of America, there I take refuge in their African songs.

My land is of goldsmithing existing in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs, and of the first artists of the world in Chiribiquete.

You will never dominate us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom and who is called Bolívar opposes you.

Our peoples are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win back the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, current Panama, before Colombia, whom you murdered.

I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if I am left alone, it will remain hoisted with Latin American dignity which is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President 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 you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and it will offer you its sweetness.

COLOMBIA FROM TODAY OPENS TO THE WHOLE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.

I am informed that you put a 50% tariff on our fruit of human labor to enter the USA, I will do the same.

Let our people sow corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world. source in spanish(x link)

Some videos for today from the Donbass and Kursk oblast.

Russian forces fully liberated the important western Donetsk People’s Republic town of Velikaya Novosyolka: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Vid7.mp4?_=1

Russian drone operators destroyed more Kiev regime military vehicles near Dzerzhinsk (this DPR city is also close to being fully liberated): https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/01/25/1006467.html

Russian drones destroyed two more US-built “MaxxPro” armored vehicles in Kursk oblast: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/01/26/1008016.html

Chat, is Hexbear accessible in Belarus? Lukashenko spent his 7th (Gaius Marius speedrun any%) re-election speechtelling China to step up. Is he lurking in the news mega?

"We sent greetings and congratulations to Xi Jinping and his family. [...] I won't repeat the cliches about happiness, health and success. I'll just say one thing: You must endure. Today, the future of multipolarity on our planet depends on you. If China holds strong - and I'm confident it will - we are ready to work together on this. [...] We need multipolarity. A unipolar world cannot ensure prosperity for all nations."

The tariffs on MX/CA are going to be REALLY bad

Like, wouldn't this kill neoliberalism in the US? At least severely weaken it? And it'll fuck over workers everywhere

Hopefully Sheinbaum nationalizes any shuttered manufacturing plants, to minimize their losses somewhat

(IT'S YOONOVER) South Korean prosecutors indict impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his martial law - AP