Believe what narrative you want: following an exchange of heated rhetoric and mutual threats of trade sanctions on social media yesterday, either Colombian President Gustavo Petro backed down from his refusal to allow military deportation flights or Donald Trump blinked and allowed said removals to proceed in a more humane manner.

A looming trade war between the US and Colombia appears to have been averted after the Colombian government agreed to allow US military flights carrying deported migrants to land in the Andean country.

Colombia backed down in a dispute over flights of deported migrants after the new US president threatened to impose steep tariffs.