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it appears to have provided that neither side would impose tariffs (for now, anyway), that the two U.S. military flights Petro had turned back would not have to land in Colombia, and that instead Colombia would send its own planes to collect the group of migrants Trump had been trying to deport, so that they could return to their home country in dignified conditions.
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To summarize: Trump wanted the deportees taken on U.S. military planes, shackled. Colombia refused to receive deportees in this manner. Trump did not successfully force Colombia to accept his conditions. Instead, the U.S. government acceded to Petro’s demand that he be allowed to determine how the migrants came home.
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The most important failing involved is simply deference to authority. As Andrew Ancheta wrote for Current Affairs in 2021, American journalists have a disturbing tendency to treat the phrase “officials say” as a synonym for “this is true,” when in reality nothing could be further from the truth.