Donald Trump threatened Colombia with sanctions and tariffs after it rejected his abuse of immigrants. Colombian President Gustavo Petro hit back against the US attacks, declaring, "We are not a colony!" Ben Norton analyzes Latin America's resistance to meddling by Trump and his neoconservative Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ8YZEecJgE
Topics
0:00 Trump admin's hawkish foreign policy
0:30 Neocon Marco Rubio
1:30 Colombia: from US puppet to target
2:24 Marco Rubio's attacks on Gustavo Petro
3:51 Israel-Palestine
5:21 US attacks on Latin America
5:58 Trump sanctions & tariffs Colombia
7:31 Humiliation of immigrants
9:10 Colombia responds with tariffs on US
10:25 US meddling fuels immigration
12:42 (CLIP) Trump on 'taking over' Venezuela
12:54 Latin America fights back
14:02 Honduras threatens to close US military base
14:40 Illegal US immigration in Colombia
15:22 China's relations with Latin America
16:49 Latin American right bows down to USA
19:30 Ecuador's US puppet president
20:40 Petro's open letter to Trump
32:23 Global South stands up
33:12 (CLIP) Trump wants to 'expand' US empire
33:43 US imperialism
34:24 Outro