‘Back to 1897’: Latin America scrambles to respond to Donald Trump’s aggression

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Latin American presidents will hold an emergency summit on Thursday to respond to US president Donald Trump’s mass deportations of migrants as they reel from his aggressive tactics towards two of Washington’s traditional regional allies. Trump clamped 25 per cent tariffs on trade with Colombia and imposed visa and other sanctions on Sunday after leftwing president Gustavo Petro turned back US military flights deporting migrants. The confrontation ended within hours after Bogotá caved in to Washington’s demands. The dramatic clash, much of it conducted over social media, unsettled Latin American nations already scared by Trump’s threats of military force to...