### Trompas versus Petrovsky

  * Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia, on Twitter

  """
  Maybe with your economic power and your arrogance you will try to 
  overthrow our government, like you did with Allende. But I will die 
  by my own law, I was tortured and survived and I will survive you as
  well. I don't want slavers as allies of Colombia, we already had them
  and we liberated ourselves from them. I want lovers of freedom as 
  allies of Colombia. If you can't join the party, I will go elsewhere.
  Colombia is the heart of the world and you don't realise it. It
  is the land of yellow butterflies, and the beauty of Remedios,
  but also the land of Aureliano Buendia, and I am one of them, 
  maybe the last.
  """ 
  
  Petro, the President of Colombia is supposedly a ex-leftist guerilla militant
  (which may well be true) and for that is sometimes called "Petrovsky" or 
  "Petrosky" in Colombia. Donald Trump who is probably an idiot is sometimes
  called "Trompas" (translation: "big nose" ?) in Colombia. Recently,
  Trump was keen to get some publicity for his circus and found a willing
  clown in Gustavo Petro. Petro decided that he was going to refuse the 
  landing of several aeroplanes carrying Colombians deported from the 
  U.S.A because the deportees were handcuffed. Unfortunately for the logic
  of Petro's argument, deportees from the United States (of America) 
  and elsewhere are almost always handcuffed, so this was nothing new.

  Anyway, Trump reacted with his usual showmanship, which is possibly his
  only talent, and Petrovsky counter-attacked with a very long tweet 
  which was reportedly sent at 3am when the President of Colombia had 
  had more than a few whiskies. The tweet, complete with literary 
  references, was widely ridiculed by the taxi-drivers of Colombia and 
  by everybody else as well. 

  But the thing that was most painful for the average Colombian was that 
  Trump immediately (but temporarily) closed the visa processing section
  of the US Embassy in Bogota, and people who had been waiting literally
  years for an interview for their visa application, suddenly had their
  visa appointment cancelled or rescheduled.

  Trump 1, Petro 0