I'm John Batchler. New World Report, Professor Avenelis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute,

we marched to the sound of bombs falling, but not in Eurasia, in the Americas.

Reuters. The charred remains of 27 people found in Colombia after bombings near the border

with Ecuador, according to the Colombian President Gustavo Petro.

And as his Ecuadorian counterpart, Daniel Naboha, said his country bombed drug traffickers in its own territory.

So the controversy is, Daniel Naboha, who is a young young man who was elected with the approval of the Trump

administration and the president himself.

And Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who has been unpredictable and troubled these last

years and is leaving office this year with the new presidential

election. He cannot succeed himself. Professor, I get lost only because the Ecuador to Colombia

transfer was critical for all those millions or hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands of

people who came into the United States

during the Biden years. That's what I know. You fly into Quito, you take a bus to the

Colombian border, you stay at hotels, especially hotels who are for Chinese nationals.

Then you take a bus on to the rest of the journey into America. That's what I know.

Are relations between Ecuador and

Colombia friendly, unfriendly, traditional? How do those countries view each other? Well, John,

there's long been a friendly relationship, although depending on whether the president or

leadership of Ecuador and Colombia was left or right, usually one on one side,

the other on the other side, you know, has fluctuated. I can tell you at the level of military

interactions and I deal with military officials in both countries that the military to military

relationships, some of the border collaboration, what they call by national frontier committees

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