Trump government frozen use of 22 helicopters that the US lent to the army and police in Colombia

The Colombian police and the army will run out of one of their important allies in the fight against drug trafficking in Colombia. The United States government, at the head of Donald Trump, has just frozen the operation of 22 Black Hawk helicopters of his property that provided his cooperation service in the country.

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This measure is part of the Trump policy of the freezing of funds for the help of the United States abroad, in which an exception was made for emergency food programs and military aid to Israel and Egypt.

News Caracol confirmed that these aircraft, which provided help to the army and the police in the fight against drugs, can no longer be used in the country. These aircraft, also used to transport Colombian troops, are currently in Mariquita, Tolima; Putumayo and Bogotá.

To this decision is added that there will be no spare parts and repair of the aforementioned helicopters. There will also be resources for the fuel of these aircraft.

Thus, the administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, decided that these helicopters will remain on the ground.

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It also transpired that the State Department of that country, led by Marco Rubio, will provide a pronouncement on this decision and even the voltage with those deported in the next few hours.

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This decision comes days after diplomatic tension between the United States and Colombia for the deportees. At first, President Gustavo Petro decided not to accept the arrival of flights with migrants who were returned from the US. To this situation, Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs and even suspended visa procedures in the Bogotá Embassy.

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For about 20 hours the relations between these allied nations had a short circuit, but after meetings between diplomats of these countries, the instances were to solve. In fact, this week four flights with deportees from the United States have already arrived in Colombia, but visa procedures have not been resumed.

This Wednesday, Trump referred to the theme again and re -victim of the Colombian deportees of “drug traffickers” or “gang members.”

“He apologized in an hour based on something I said ‘that will pay tariffs like no one before,” said the president of the United States about the situation with the Colombian government.

To these statements, President Petro replied that “he would apologize if he had been complicit in Gaza genocide.” And he added: “President Trump Anye!: Let’s fight climate change and decrease, then, migration.”

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