In 30 days, Trump has removed alliances and used tariffs as a pressure tool to obtain concessions.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, turns a month in the White House in which, by means of presidential orders -68 to February 19-, it has removed the alliances and used tariffs as a pressure tool to obtain concessions.
Is that in the last hours the medium CBS News reported that “The Trump administration has decreed a pause in all immigration requests presented by migrants from Latin America and Ukraine Allowed in the United States under certain biden era, citing fraud and security concerns, according to two US officials and an internal memorandum obtained by CBS News. “
The encumbrances have allowed advantages in trade but also in migration and security, Forcing each country to sit to negotiate directly with the United States.
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On February 1, after several threats, imposed the first 25 % tariffs for Canada and Mexico, as well as others of 10 % for China products.
After successive negotiations, both neighbors managed to postpone the entry into force of the fees for a month. However, in China they became effective within three days and the Asian giant responded with levies between 10 % to 15 % to certain US products.
Trump’s commercial war continued with aluminum and steel, to whose imports applied 25%tariffs.
Immigration, national emergency
Another of its main battles is immigration. The same day he assumed the position he declared national emergency at the border with Mexico and deployed 15,000 military to “ensure” that border and repel those “forms of invasion.”
Within the US borders, massive arrests of undocumented immigrants began to be carried out, becoming almost a thousand people arrested in a day to, in many cases, be returned to their countries of origin.
The first deportations took place on January 24when more than 150 people were transferred in two military aircraft to Guatemala.
Colombia flew in two 110 immigrants aircraft on January 27 After President Gustavo Pedro cediese after a pulse with Trump. At first he denied deportations, but ended up accepting them after Washington’s threats to impose 25 % tariffs on Colombian products.
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In his war against migration, Trump also ordered 30,000 beds to enable the Guantanamo Naval Base in order to stop undocumented immigrants; The first ten arrived on February 4.
In his eagerness to exalt América (‘Make America Great Again’ is his slogan), another of his battles has been reopening the Gulf of Mexico as ‘Gulf of America’, for which he has established on February 9 as his official day. This has solved its Mexican neighbors.
In addition, he has retired to the US of various international organizations and agreements. On the day of his arrival he broke with the Climate Agreement of Paris, with the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Also cut off USAID’s aid, The institution that brings aid to developing countries.
The end of the Ukraine War and a resort in Gaza
During his campaign, the Republican leader said he would end the Ukraine War in 24 hours, a promise that he has not been able to fulfill but has taken steps to carry it out.
This February 12 He had telephone conversations with the presidents of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski.
And this Tuesday, The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, and his Russian counterpart, Serguéi Lavrov, met in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), where they started working in a plan to end the contest.
For now, Trump has proposed to kyiv to continue military support in exchange for the United States access to Ukrainian land.
Gaza has been another keyword in his presidency. He has shown his proximity to Israeli prime minister, Netanyahu Bejamin, and devised a plan for the strip that has been criticized by the international community.
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On the second day of his mandate he lifted the sanctions imposed by the previous administration to the groups of Israeli settlers and the extreme right in the West Bank and four days later he defrosted a cargo of bombs to Israel that had been slowed down by his predecessor, Joe Biden.
Netanyahu has been the first foreign leader to visit the White House since Trump’s return. Both leaders met on February 4 and hours before, the US president withdrew the country’s participation from the UN Human Rights Council and froze funds for the UN Agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.
In addition, Trump has proposed to displace the Gazatis of the Strip to countries such as Egypt or Jordan and rebuild that territory to make it the new ‘Riviera de Oriente Middle’, a plan that has been highly criticized.
