Donald Trump turns an angry gaze south.
THE TRADE war between the United States and Colombia on January 26th was over within a day—about the same time it took Teddy Roosevelt’s gunboats to engineer the secession of Panama from Colombia in 1903 as the prelude to digging the Panama Canal. Now, as then, force won. Colombia stopped resisting President Donald Trump’s deportation of its unwanted nationals. But America First bullying may yet provoke a backlash.
THE TRADE war between the United States and Colombia on January 26th was over within a day—about the same time it took Teddy Roosevelt’s gunboats to engineer the secession of Panama from Colombia in 1903 as the prelude to digging the Panama Canal. Now, as then, force won. Colombia stopped resisting President Donald Trump’s deportation of its unwanted nationals. But America First bullying may yet provoke a backlash.
Donald Trump turns an angry gaze south.
THE TRADE war between the United States and Colombia on January 26th was over within a day—about the same time it took Teddy Roosevelt’s gunboats to engineer the secession of Panama from Colombia in 1903 as the prelude to digging the Panama Canal. Now, as then, force won. Colombia stopped resisting President Donald Trump’s deportation of its unwanted nationals. But America First bullying may yet provoke a backlash.
