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Trump attacks Colombia, and it pushes back: 'We are not a colony'!
Published 1 year, 1 month ago
Description
Donald Trump threatened Colombia with sanctions and tariffs after it rejected his abuse of immigrants. Colombian President Gustavo Petro hit back against the US attacks, declaring, "We are not a colony!" Ben Norton analyzes Latin America's resistance to meddling by Trump and his neoconservative Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ8YZEecJgE
Topics
0:00 Trump admin's hawkish foreign policy
0:30 Neocon Marco Rubio
1:30 Colombia: from US puppet to target
2:24 Marco Rubio's attacks on Gustavo Petro
3:51 Israel-Palestine
5:21 US attacks on Latin America
5:58 Trump sanctions & tariffs Colombia
7:31 Humiliation of immigrants
9:10 Colombia responds with tariffs on US
10:25 US meddling fuels immigration
12:42 (CLIP) Trump on 'taking over' Venezuela
12:54 Latin America fights back
14:02 Honduras threatens to close US military base
14:40 Illegal US immigration in Colombia
15:22 China's relations with Latin America
16:49 Latin American right bows down to USA
19:30 Ecuador's US puppet president
20:40 Petro's open letter to Trump
32:23 Global South stands up
33:12 (CLIP) Trump wants to 'expand' US empire
33:43 US imperialism
34:24 Outro