What does Donald Trump’s return to the White House mean for Colombia, Latin America and the world?

This Monday, January 20, 2025, the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, will return to the White House. In The keycon Juan Roberto Vargasdirector of Noticias Caracol, Margarita Rojasinternational director of Noticias Caracol, analyzes the implications that the return of the American magnate to the government of the North American country has for Colombia, Latin America and the world.

Margarita maintained that Trump’s arrival to the presidency of USA“First of all, it is a reversal per se because we are going from a Democratic administration to a Republican administration. Secondly, it is a policy reversal because it is expected that one of Donald Trump’s first actions will be to roll back a large number of security measures. Joe Biden”.

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On Joe Biden’s decision to remove Cuba From the list of countries that sponsor terrorism, the international director of Noticias Caracol believes that this would be the first to fall under Trump’s mandate: “Many people believe that we will see a second stage of Donald Trump, much more drastic than the one we already knew. because they say it is a recharged version.”

Donald Trump would forgive those who took over the Capitol

According to Margarita Rojas, Donald Trump He is going to pardon the people who participated in the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. “It is one of the first expected measures,” since the president has the power to do so.

Another of the measures that Trump will take will be “to carry out massive deportations and new tariffs on foreign products, which could affect exports of Canada, Mexico or China.”

On the Trump government’s relations with Latin AmericaMargarita Rojas explained that “the Biden government has opted for diplomacy and now we know what Trump’s style is like. We are in a strong hand, he is betting on that, he has a Secretary of State who is betting on a hard hand, that is, who puts pressure, makes it clear who is in charge here, imposes some of his interests.”

Regarding cocaine drug trafficking, according to Margarita Rojas, that is no longer an important issue on the agenda of the United States: “They are much more interested in drug trafficking. fentanyl and on that side there are tougher screws for Mexico and China.

Immigration, Trump’s workhorse

As far as Colombia is concerned, the issue of migration is what most worries the government of the North American country, specifically due to the passage in the Darien plug. “Some of the analysts spoke, during the elections where Trump won, about a migration of relations; That is to say, the United States is surely going to condition many of its exchanges or ‘favors’ on immigration controls.”

Finally, the Venezuela issue in the United States Government It will be, as Margarita Rojas predicts, “complex circumstances, in terms of pressures and sanctions that in the long run were not effective in Trump’s first term either. So, it is a question of where the strategy is going to turn because the previous two have already been considered a failure: the tough one against Maduro, in the Trump era, and the negotiations of the Biden era.”

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