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2025-01-26 Caribbean-Latin America
Closing down the USA embassy in Colombia due to rejection by Columbia of return of ILLEGALS
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Posted by 3dc 2025-01-26 12:57|| || Front Page|| [11166 views ]  Top
 File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats 

#1 Not happy with this but could be a huge oppotunity for deals. Columbia has a very low GDP per person (cheap labor) but they are highly educated and skilled. They are where Mexico was some 20-30 years ago and can make low end items in low-medium added value (see ore into refined raw metal and such) and then ship that to Mexico/US for assembly into higher value added products. Aaaaand we have a free trade agreement with them. Maybe slip a few billion from venture capitalists to build up infrastructure that are encouraged by tax breaks and that can help decouple from China even more
Posted by DarthVader 2025-01-26 13:41||   2025-01-26 13:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow! No negotiation, just shut them out. Gotta love the wake up call for the rest of the world...
Posted by 49 Pan 2025-01-26 13:58||   2025-01-26 13:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah that is how Trump and his people work 49. Slap them down and they panic and offer up things to change it. Art of the deal
Posted by DarthVader 2025-01-26 14:04||   2025-01-26 14:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Ha. Colombia is playing soccer and we're playing baseball, with Nolan Ryan pitching.
Posted by Bobby 2025-01-26 14:05||   2025-01-26 14:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Closing the visa section (as the article states) is not the same as closing the embassy. Don't get me wrong - glad we did it and should do it more places.
Posted by Bangkok Billy 2025-01-26 14:14||   2025-01-26 14:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Oi! Who will buy my coffee beans?
Posted by Juan Valdez 2025-01-26 14:44||   2025-01-26 14:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Blockade the coca shipments...
Posted by BrerRabbit 2025-01-26 15:53||   2025-01-26 15:53|| Front Page Top

#8 BREAKING: Following retaliatory measures announced by President Donald Trump Colombian President Gustavo Petro now is offering his presidential plane to help repatriate deportees
Posted by Frank G 2025-01-26 16:43||   2025-01-26 16:43|| Front Page Top

#9 That was quick?
Posted by Frank G 2025-01-26 16:43||   2025-01-26 16:43|| Front Page Top

#10 The art of the bloody deal, for the win!!!
Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-26 16:54||   2025-01-26 16:54|| Front Page Top

#11 Self-Aware:
Posted by Frank G 2025-01-26 17:05||   2025-01-26 17:05|| Front Page Top

#12 The threat was more than just closing the embassy visa section. Red State collected the entire sequence here, including President Trump’s epic 1000-word image posted in response to the capitulation. Just keep scrolling down.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-26 17:06||   2025-01-26 17:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Frank G again beat me to it, but that’s ok — it shows I’m on the right track. :-)
Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-26 17:07||   2025-01-26 17:07|| Front Page Top

#14 Love ya!
Posted by Frank G 2025-01-26 17:19||   2025-01-26 17:19|| Front Page Top

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Posted by swksvolFF 2025-01-26 19:26||   2025-01-26 19:26|| Front Page Top

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Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-26 20:03||   2025-01-26 20:03|| Front Page Top

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