Colombia, Trump

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Trump calls Colombia's Petro an 'illegal drug leader' and announces an end to US aid to the country
The United States will slash assistance to Colombia because its leader, Gustavo Petro, “does nothing to stop” drug production, President Donald Trump said Sunday, escalating the friction between Washi...

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Trump ends aid to Colombia and calls country's leader a 'drug leader'
Colombia’s Leader Accuses U.S. of Murder, Prompting Trump to Halt Aid
US releasing survivors of strike on suspected drug vessel to their home countries
The Trump administration is considering moving the two survivors of Thursday’s military strike on a suspected drug vessel in the Caribbean to their home countries and releasing them from US military c...

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U.S. Is Repatriating Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel
Trump to repatriate two survivors of strike on alleged ‘drugs sub’ destroyed in Caribbean
U.S. will send survivors of strike on suspected drug vessel back to Ecuador and Colombia, Trump says
“It was my great honor to destroy a very large DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE that was navigating towards the United States on a well known narcotrafficking transit route,” Trump said in a social media post...

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United States releasing survivors of latest airstrike in the Caribbean currently held by the Navy
At least 2 survivors of US attack on alleged drug smugglers in American custody

Trump, strike

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Trump says two survivors of U.S. strike on submersible suspected of drug smuggling will be sent home
President Trump posted a video of a U.S. military strike on a submersible suspected of smuggling drugs on Saturday. Two people were killed in the Thursday strike but the two survivors were brought to a Navy ship.

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Trump posts new video of U.S. strike on ‘drug-carrying submarine’
Trump confirms strike on submarine but doesn’t comment on any possible survivors
Trump calls Colombian president 'a drug leader', vows end to payments
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday called Colombian President Gustavo Petro an "illegal drug leader" and said the United States would cease "large scale payments and subsidies" to the South Americ...

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Exclusive: US returning Caribbean strike survivors to Colombia and Ecuador, Trump says
Trump calls Colombian president a ‘drug leader’ and threatens US will ‘close up’ country’s ‘killing fields’: ‘It won’t be done nicely’
Navy holding two prisoners who survived US strike on alleged drug sub in Caribbean: report
The reported detentions could prompt legal challenges for the U.S., including whether to hold the alleged survivors as indefinite wartime detainees or transfer them to military or criminal authoritie...

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Trump Losing Allies In U.S. Backyard After ‘Sub’ Attack? Petro Explodes | 'Troops Sedated Colombian'
Trump admin to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Ecuador, Colombia

Trump says will hike tariffs on Colombia as drug trade feud escalates

By Jeff Mason, Andy Sullivan and David Ljunggren ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday night he would raise tariffs on Colombia and stop all payments to the South American nation,

Trump and Colombian President Trade Digital Attacks Over Boat Strikes

The U.S. president threatened to withdraw aid to Colombia after that country’s leader, Gustavo Petro, accused the United States of murdering a fisherman in a Caribbean strike last week.
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