Colombia avoids trade war with US as business community, citizens call for cooler heads

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : The showdown between Petro and Trump, who has been in office a week, played out through verbose posts on social media, with Petro on X and Trump on Truth Social.
47% : The measures announced by Trump, including a 25% tariff on all Colombian goods that was set to rise to 50% in a week and emergency treasury, banking and financial sanctions, would have had an "immense impact" on the Colombia economy, said Bruce Mac Master, president of business association ANDI.
41% : Asked if Trump had used Petro as an example to other countries, a White House source with knowledge of the matter said "absolutely.
24% : Petro's condemnation of the use of military planes, saying deportees were being treated like criminals and that his administration is "the opposite of the Nazis", seemed to rile Trump more than similar spats with Mexico and Brazil.

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