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

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 Mexican peso tumbled on Monday as investors worried that trade disputes would again whipsaw markets after U.S. President Donald Trump’s overnight threat to impose steep tariffs on Colombia.

The country’s leader, Gustavo Petro, backed down after a clash with President Trump, which started when Mr. Petro turned back U.S. military planes carrying deportees.

When Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, refused military planes carrying deportees, infuriating President Trump, he revealed how heated the question of deportations has become.

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.

President Donald Trump has already forced Colombia to accept deportees by threatening tariffs and is readying the same move against Canada and Mexico as soon as Saturday

Donald Trump's plan for mass deportations of migrants from the United States is encountering its first obstacles. Colombia is the latest country to announce it will not accept planes with deportees. Earlier,

The nations spent much of the day in a tense standoff, with the U.S. president threatening tariffs and visa restrictions after Colombia turned away two deportation flights.

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.