It was too short for a South American telenovela, but just long enough for a comic operetta of the Belle époque.

Last Sunday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro, a 64-year old former Marxist guerrilla fighter whom recent reports have tied romantically to a man who masquerades as a woman and whose domestic disapproval rating has exceeded 60%, reversed his earlier agreement to allow Colombian illegal aliens who have committed crimes and been detained in the United States to be returned to his country on U.S. military aircraft.

Mrs. Petro has yet to offer her perspective on these unconventional developments, but newly reinaugurated President Donald J. Trump was unamused.

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