State Dept. Draws Up List of Cartels to Be Labeled Terrorist Groups
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State Dept. Draws Up List of Cartels to Be Labeled Terrorist Groups

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration plans to designate more than a half-dozen criminal groups with roots in Latin America as foreign terrorist organizations, said five U.S. officials with knowledge of the imminent action. The move, to be carried out by the State Department, follows an…

Trump Favors Blunt Force in Dealing With Foreign Allies and Enemies Alike
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Trump Favors Blunt Force in Dealing With Foreign Allies and Enemies Alike

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Soft power is out. Hard power is in. Since returning to the White House, President Trump has demonstrated that he prefers to bludgeon, not bargain, his way to foreign policy goals. With counterparts from Asia, the Middle East and North and South America,…

Inside Colombia’s Crisis Over Trump’s Deportations
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Inside Colombia’s Crisis Over Trump’s Deportations

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Colombia’s president, early on Sunday, announced that he had turned back two American military planes carrying deportees from the United States, setting off an extraordinary crisis inside and outside his country as he infuriated President Trump and caught even his own inner circle…

Behind the Colombia Blowup: Mapping Trump’s Rapid-Escalation Tactics
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Behind the Colombia Blowup: Mapping Trump’s Rapid-Escalation Tactics

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In the end it took only about 12 hours for President Trump’s first head-to-head confrontation with one of the United States’ closest allies in Latin America, a blowup over Colombia’s rejection of U.S. military flights to return illegal immigrants, to result in a…

Trump Wants to Impose 25% Tariffs on Colombia. Here’s What Could Cost More.
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Trump Wants to Impose 25% Tariffs on Colombia. Here’s What Could Cost More.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The possibility of a trade war erupted on Sunday between the United States and Colombia that could make coffee, flowers and raw materials more expensive for Americans, while U.S. corn growers and chemical companies could find billions of dollars in sales at risk….

Trump Hits Colombia With Tariffs in Feud Over Military Deportation Flights
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Trump Hits Colombia With Tariffs in Feud Over Military Deportation Flights

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Colombia refused to accept U.S. military planes deporting immigrants, setting off a furious reaction from President Trump, who on Sunday announced a barrage of tariffs and sanctions targeting the country, which has long been a top U.S. ally in Latin America. The United…

At Least 80 Dead in Colombia Amid a New Surge of Violence
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At Least 80 Dead in Colombia Amid a New Surge of Violence

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines At least 80 people are dead and more than 11,000 have been forced to flee their homes in Colombia, officials say, amid fierce clashes between two rival armed groups on the border with Venezuela. The violence, in a northeast region called Catatumbo, is…

What Border Crisis? Mexican Migrant Shelters Are Quiet Ahead of Trump
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What Border Crisis? Mexican Migrant Shelters Are Quiet Ahead of Trump

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Migrants used to gather by the hundreds in encampments in Ciudad Juárez, on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, waiting for a chance to cross into the United States. But as President-elect Donald J. Trump prepares to take office on Monday, few…

Can Colombia’s talks with the Comuneros del Sur help achieve ‘total peace’? | Conflict News

Can Colombia’s talks with the Comuneros del Sur help achieve ‘total peace’? | Conflict News

For Gómez-Suárez, if Colombia’s conflict is regional, then the solution should be too. He draws a contrast between his approach to the Comuneros and the way the Colombian government previously negotiated peace with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), once the largest rebel group in the country. In 2016,…

Colombia’s president faces trouble – but blames opposition for ‘coup’ | Government News

Colombia’s president faces trouble – but blames opposition for ‘coup’ | Government News

A coup is underway in Bogota, Colombia. Or so the Colombian president Gustavo Petro claims. On October 8, Petro took to social media to denounce what he alleges is an ongoing attempt to overthrow his government. “The coup has begun,” he wrote on his X profile. Petro’s accusation came after…