The Trump administration had added extra inspections for passengers from Colombia as part of a pressure campaign. The effects lingered into Wednesday.

President Donald Trump posted threats against Colombia on his social media platform on Sunday after two U.S. military repatriation flights were prevented from landing.

Colombia isn’t the first nation to have materially countered Trump’s deportation plans. Still, its tiff with the U.S. is indicative of some lesser-known trade entanglements between North and South America—and of the potential for the Trump administration to hurt Americans’ pocketbooks in its craven pursuit of mass deportations.

Daniel Oquendo, 33, remembers well the first words US border agents told him after he crossed the US-Mexico border on0.

When Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, refused military planes carrying deportees, infuriating President Trump, he revealed how heated the question of deportations has become.

By Oliver Griffin, Luis Jaime Acosta and Nandita Bose BOGOTA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Colombia's President Gustavo Petro averted an economic disaster at the 11th hour after diplomats from his government and the U.

President Donald Trump’s threat to tax imports from Colombia comes at a most inauspicious time. Valentine’s Day is less than three weeks away, and Colombia is America’s No. 1 foreign source of cut flowers,

If Trump had carried out the threat of tariffs, the prices of many goods imported from Colombia could have increased, including coffee, flowers and crude oil.

A short-lived tariff feud with the Latin American nation underscored the president's propensity to use economic sanctions as political leverage.

The US and Colombia pulled back from the brink of a trade war after the White House said the South American nation had agreed to accept military aircraft carrying deported migrants.

By threatening Colombia with the type of sanctions reserved for U.S. adversaries, Trump inflamed global interest in cultivating alternatives to the dollar.