Daniel Oquendo, 33, remembers well the first words US border agents told him after he crossed the US-Mexico border on0.

U.S. President Trump said that his administration could impose a 25% tariff on Mexican exports. But will he actually act on his threat?

Colombia isn’t the first nation to have materially countered Trump’s deportation plans. Still, its tiff with the U.S. is indicative of some lesser-known trade entanglements between North and South America—and of the potential for the Trump administration to hurt Americans’ pocketbooks in its craven pursuit of mass deportations.

The Trump administration's use of U.S. military aircraft to return deportees has raised alarms throughout Latin America.

A brief standoff with Colombia holds important lessons for how future trade conflicts might unfold in the new Trump administration.

The US and Colombia pulled back from the brink of a trade war after the White House said the South American nation had agreed to accept military aircraft carrying deported migrants.

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro averted an economic disaster at the 11th hour after diplomats from his government and the U.S. reached a deal on deportation flights, but the Colombian business community on Monday called for cooler heads to prevail as Colombians bemoaned canceled U.

Colombia’s president said his nation would not accept flights of deported migrants. Then each country announced retaliatory tariffs.

Like Colombia, Mexico does not have a problem with contracted civilian aircraft carrying out the flights, the official said, and those are what the Department of Homeland Security typically uses.

“The U.S. cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals,” Petro wrote, noting that there were 15,660 Americans without proper immigration status in Colombia. Mexico also refused a request last ...

Colombia is already threatening to impose 50% on US goods in a tit-for-tat tariff war. Mexico has also objected to the use of military aircraft for the deportation of migrants. Brazil expressed ...