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I’m buying flowers for Valentine’s Day this Friday.
Colombian flowers.
On January 26, Colombian President Gustavo Petro denied the entry of U.S. military planes filled with handcuffed and shackled deportees. Immediately, U.S. President Donald J. Trump threatened to slap a 25 percent tariff on Colombian goods, increasing to 50 percent if deportation flights were not allowed to land. Those flowers—one of Colombia’s principal exports—were going to be expensive, I thought.