A Colombian Air Force plane landed on Tuesday in a military base in Bogotá with 110 citizens of the South American country deported by the United States, fulfilling an agreement that avoided a commercial war and a diplomatic crisis between the two countries, local media said.
The Boeing 737 from San Diego, California, reached the Military Base of Catam, near the El Dorado International Airport of Bogotá, reported the newspaper El Tiempo and Radio Caracol, with the first mass deportation of Colombians since the Republican Donald Trump assumed as president of the United States for the second time.
The landing of a second aircraft with another 95 people deported from the United States is expected.
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, disavowed on Sunday the entry of two military aircraft C-17 of the United States with citizens of the deported South American country, causing an energetic Trump reaction that accused him of attempting against national security.
The Colombian president claimed a decent treatment for his deported nationals, opposed his transfer in military aircraft in the United States and said they should not be treated as criminals.
Trump threatened to impose a 25% tariff on Colombian exports and upload it the following week to 50%, in addition to cancellation of visas to Petro, government officials and prosecuting, banking and financial emergency sanctions.
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Sunday’s agreement, with which the diplomatic crisis that threatened with a commercial war and a blow to the economy of Colombia, the largest fourth in Latin America, included Washington’s commitment not to impose sanctions once successfully arrived successfully The first deportees flight.
The visa sanctions issued by the State Department, and the reinforced inspections of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), also remained in force until the arrival of the plane, according to the agreement.
An American military plane with migrants landed on Monday El Guatemala, the third that successfully arrives at that Central American country since the beginning of military deportation flights last week.
The use of US military aircraft to make deportation flights is part of the Pentagon response to the National Emergency Declaration on immigration that Trump made last week.
The Pentagon announced last week that the US army would provide flights for deportations of more than 5,000 immigrants arrested by US authorities in El Paso, Texas, and San Diego, California.
In the past, US military planes were used to transfer people from one country to another, as during the American retreat of Afghanistan in 2021.
With Reuters information
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