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   Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 03:48:43 JST Laffy

   • Pachacutec

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   “Colombian govt agreed to allow US military flights carrying deported migrants to land..”

   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20p36e62gyo

   Via @Pachacutec:

   BBC article is rewriting US press release. It omits that #Colombia obtained agreemt from US to ensure deported citizens transported safely, not in chains, w respect for the bodies, dignity, human rts. This was Pres Petro's core demand.

   Western media is at this pt consistently framing the agreemt as a unilateral concession by #Colombia and that is false.

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     Pachacutec (pachacutec@union.place)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 03:49:36 JST Pachacutec

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     @melis @GottaLaff

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     Petro is very active on social media and knows how to dunk on people. His national corporate media actively lies to diminish him but he remains popular.

     So his silence on the concessions the US made I believe is intentional so that Trump can bray for domestic audiences, because Petro already got what he wanted:
     1) humane treatment for the deported
     2) an opportunity to expand Latin American solidarity & unity for Petro's global progressive & anti-colonial agenda

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     0px auto (melis@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 03:49:37 JST 0px auto

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     @GottaLaff @Pachacutec My National broadcaster did the same…

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     Danette 🐬 (danetteb@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 03:49:53 JST Danette 🐬

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     @Pachacutec @melis @GottaLaff
     Your statement about his silence so Trump can bray publicly is quite profound. I read a book on diplomacy & negotiation a few years ago -one thing the British diplomat said frequently was how important it was to approach the negotiations w a sensitivity to the ego of the personalities your working with. So any concessions you ask are delicately proposed to try and get a win-win or at least not have a big loss on one side so that one party refuses to talk at all.