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Today, a pair of political crises puts Colombia's Gustavo Petro's presidency in the spotlight.

The dispute began over the weekend when Colombia's president refused to let two U.S. military

planes with repatriated migrants on board land in his country.

Can the Colombian leaders stand up to the U.S. and make peace at home?

I'm Kevin Horton, and this is the take.

You never know when you'll wake up one morning, and then you'll see this huge feud on Twitter

between President Dusao Petro and another head of state.

My name is Christina Noriega. I'm a freelance journalist, and I'm currently based in Bogota, Colombia.

So, Christina, this has been a crazy few days for Colombia, and specifically for the country's left wing, President Gustavo Petro.

So first, there's the ongoing violence on Colombia's northern border with Venezuela.

The violence, some of the worst in years, began when the National Liberation Army, or ELN,

launched a campaign against a dissident faction of former FARC rebels to control lucrative drug

routes. The rebels have targeted demobilized fighters, community leaders and civilians they

see as opposing their operations.

Petro had declared a state of emergency, and we'll get to that in a second.

So while he's dealing with that, he gets into what you might call a social media

shoving match with U.S. President Donald Trump over the treatment of Colombian citizens who are being

deported from the U.S. Donald Trump responded on his social media platform, truth social, writing,

emergency 25 percent tariffs on all goods coming into the United States.

In one week, the 25% tariffs will be raised to 50%.

Columbia's president fired right back.

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