Sunday: these photos and videos have made the rounds in Latin America, and Colombia's president Petro is feeling political heat over flights scheduled to arrive today. He orders them stopped likewise until conditions are improved.
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Donald Trump loses his shit. He is being played like a fiddle, but doesn't know it. He orders retaliation, and punitive sanctions and tariffs are impsed on Colombia.
Trump has just put sanctions on our largest supplier of cut flowers and coffee days before Valentine's day.
Welp, this is what happens when a foreign nation sees its nationals treated worse than American citizens that attempted an insurrection and assaulted federal police.
Probably shouldn’t be a global market in them, but I think it’s fine that they’re sold at my local farmer’s market: gives the grower incentive to keep some insect habitat around the edges of the field
One thing this thread elides a bit is that while shackling is standard the use of military planes is not. Which doesn’t change whether the IR analysis is plausible, but it’s not like these were _identical_ circumstances differently construed.
bc thats where the Madagaskar plan ended...So how will be avoided that the USA just makes a lot of lil private killing camps, clearly the US press just gonna be pretending thats cool and normal too
Please research what a tariff is. We pay the tariff to the government (USA keeps the tariff). A tariff is an added charge to the product, paid to the USA. Ok Coffee is $10 at the port. Starbus (SB) buys coffee at $10. Let's imagine that SB makes no profit and sells for $10. The USA adds 25% tariff.
Ok? And? The rational choice would be for US buyer to buy it for cheaper from Brazil. Brazilian growers would be smart to raise price a bit to take advantage.
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Trump has just put sanctions on our largest supplier of cut flowers and coffee days before Valentine's day.
Point to Lula.
North America (Mexico is voting), Canada does not belong. The USA of Donald Trump is the evil enemy.
Central America: All invited
South America: All invited... Brazil is the sleeping GIANT! Don't wake up the GIANTs... They can get angry...
#TalesofDeportation
This time with a whole country.
I think the big companies - Folgers etc have been supplied by Brazil going back decades.
Even Starbucks buys Brazilian.
Maybe it's a dead meme.
It is a completely useless commodity, bad for people and bad for the world.
But flowers are utterly useless.
bc thats where the Madagaskar plan ended...So how will be avoided that the USA just makes a lot of lil private killing camps, clearly the US press just gonna be pretending thats cool and normal too