Trump attacks Colombia, and it pushes back: 'We are not a colony'!

Donald Trump threatened Colombia with sanctions and tariffs after it rejected his abuse of immigrants. Colombian President Gustavo Petro hit back against the US attacks, declaring, "We are not a colony!" Ben Norton analyzes Latin America's resistance to meddling by Trump and his neoconservative Secretary of State Marco Rubio. VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ8YZEecJgE Topics 0:00 Trump admin's hawkish foreign policy 0:30 Neocon Marco Rubio 1:30 Colombia: from US puppet to target 2:24 Marco Rubio's attacks on Gustavo Petro 3:51 Israel-Palestine 5:21 US attacks on Latin America 5:58 Trump sanctions & tariffs Colombia 7:31 Humiliation of immigrants 9:10 Colombia responds with tariffs on US 10:25 US meddling fuels immigration 12:42 (CLIP) Trump on 'taking over' Venezuela 12:54 Latin America fights back 14:02 Honduras threatens to close US military base 14:40 Illegal US immigration in Colombia 15:22 China's relations with Latin America 16:49 Latin American right bows down to USA 19:30 Ecuador's US puppet president 20:40 Petro's open letter to Trump 32:23 Global South stands up 33:12 (CLIP) Trump wants to 'expand' US empire 33:43 US imperialism 34:24 Outro

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