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Podcast: Fault Lines
Episode: Episode 516: Bogotá or Bust?
Description: Today, Morgan, Jamil, Martha, and Jess unpack the growing tension between Washington and Bogotá after President Trump accused Colombian President Gustavo Petro of running a drug manufacturing regime and threatened to slash aid and impose tariffs. The escalation follows Colombia’s inclusion last month on the U.S. list of countries failing to cooperate with anti-narcotics efforts—and a U.S. strike on a Colombian vessel in the Caribbean that Washington claims was tied to narco-trafficking.Is this just political posturing or a real rupture with one of America’s closest partners in Latin America? Can Trump’s...