Written by Joshua Godman and Jolie
Miami (AP) – When Republican Senator Bernie Moreno Colombia visits this week as part of a round of three countries in Latin America, it will be a kind of returning home.
The first Sinator of Spanish origin was born in Ohio in the capital of Bogota, and even while following the American dream in that state, he remained familiar with the Latin American country through his older brothers, who justify politics and companies in his homeland.
In an interview with Associated Press before the trip, Moreno expressed a deep concern about the trend taking the country in the government of left -wing President Gustavo Petro, and stated that sanctions from the United States may be necessary, a higher tariff or other retaliatory measures to correct the session.
Latter A criminal condemnation of former President Alvaro Urby Moreno said that the icon of the conservatives – was an attempt to “silence” the man who saved Colombia from the violence of guerrilla warfare. Meanwhile, the United States’s standard production of the United States has left less secure, already the Colombia exhibition of the White House of its misleading of the lack of cooperation in the war on drugs.
“The purpose of the trip is to understand all the dynamics before making any decision,” said Mourino, who will meet Petro and Yurik, as with business leaders and local officials during the visit. “But nothing was excluded at this time, and there is nothing to think directly.”
It was chosen with Trump’s support
Moreno, an agent of luxury cars in Cleveland, defeated Sherrod Brown last year with Donald Trump’s support and $ 441 million at political advertising expenditures, as is the case in the history of the Federal Senate.
Senator became the main in Ohio’s state in his first day in his position, after his close friend JD Vance gave the House of Representatives to become vice -president. In Congress, Trump’s tradition to attack the main Democrat in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, described it as “ancient miserable from Dickens’ novel”; The Federal Reserve urged to reduce interest rates, and threatened to quote from California officials to respond to the protests against the ICE and ICE service in Los Angeles.
As for Latin America, it also spoke publicly, criticized Petro on social networks, describing it as a “socialist dictator”, and accused Mexico of aiming to be “Narko”.
Such comments are barely attended by Ohio Obero, but they drew attention in Latin America, where Mourino has emerged as a hub for the governors in the region who are trying to win the Saleh of the Trump government. Despite the fact that Senator has not lived in the region for decades, the Spanish spoke in an American tone and not part of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
“It is someone to notice it,” said Michael Chevter, the former head of the American dialogue, a non -profit research agency in Washington. “He is one of Trump’s most loyal supporters in the Senate, and given his background in Latin America, he can be influential in politics.”
Moreno, 58, begins on Monday, his first legislative delegation to Latin America with two days of meetings with Mexico City officials, including President Claudia Shinbom. It will be accompanied by Terrance Cole, Director of the Narcotics Control Department, who has been making his first journey abroad since the Senate confirmed last month to direct the anti -organization Agency.
In search of Mexico’s cooperation on fentanel
In the previous interview with The Trip, Moreno said that Sheinbau made to combat the flow of fentanel to the United States more than his predecessor and his teacher Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who said it was a “complete disaster”. But he pointed out that more cooperation is needed, and he would like to see Mexico allowing Dea to participate in judicial phone interventions as it did decades ago in Colombia, and allows him to return a plane used in the bilateral investigations that Lopez Obrador forced to stay on the ground.
“Corruption becomes very generalized, so if it is not controlled, this is similar to cancer treatment,” Mourino said. “Mexico must realize that you do not have the resources to complete the drug gangs completely. It will just ask for help to the United States that we can really achieve it.”
Plan to take a tour of the Panama channel
From Mexico, Moreno will go to Panama, where he will travel to the channel with the new Trump ambassador to the country, Kevin Marino Kapreira.
In March, its headquarters in Hong Kong signed an agreement that would allow control of two outlets in each of the channel that the United States built to the American investment company Blackrock Inc. The agreement that threatened to recover the channel was praised to stop the Chinese influence.
However, the agreement was scrutinized by the anti -coordinated authorities in Beijing, and last month the seller indicated this I was looking to add to the agreement as a strategic partner From continental China, the Government Company for Maritime Transport is assumed to Cosco.
“From Cosco, one can say it is in reality the Communist Party,” Mourino said. “There is no scenario in which COSCO can be part of the Panamphic ports.”
“We want Colombia to be strong.”
In the last stage of the tour of Colombia, Moreno Sinator will accompany another American Colombian: Robin Galligo, Democratic Arizona. Unlike Moreno, who was born in a good social position and was one of his brothers as an ambassador to the United States, Gallgo and his three sisters were originally armed by a single mother who migrated with Amin’s salary.
Despite their various crises, the two have made a common cause in an attempt to continue to imitate bilateral support to the United States to Colombia, for decades, the most powerful ally in Washington in the region. It is the task that has become more difficult due to the growing growth in both countries.
The last ruling of Urby, 12 years of arrest of the House of Representatives in a long state of manipulation of the nation’s policy, has shook at a time when nine months are missing for the decisive presidential elections. The former president is prohibited to advance, but he is still a strong leader, and Moreno noticed that his absence in the campaign could affect the electoral balance.
He also feels anxious that the increase in cocaine production can again lead to “erosion” of a bilateral relationship that must be on trade, investment and mutual prosperity.
He added: “We want Colombia to be strong, we want Colombia to be in good health, we want Colombia to be prosperous and safe, and I think the Colombia people want the same thing.” “So, the question is: How do we achieve that?”
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Smith mentioned Columbus, Ohio.
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