A public showdown between the leaders of the US and Colombia has rippled across Latin America, increasing the anxiety many nations feel about the return of Donald Trump.

On Sunday, Trump threatened 25% tariffs on trade with Colombia after President Gustavo Petro turned back US military flights carrying deported Colombian migrants. The "dramatic clash" unsettled a region already reeling from Trump's threatened tariffs on Mexico, his anti-immigration policies, and his threat to take control of the Panama Canal, said the Financial Times. China will likely view Trump's unpredictability as "an ideal opportunity".

What did the commentators say?
The "dust-up" showed yet again that Latin America will "bear the brunt" of Trump's policies, said CNN's Patrick Oppmann. The rift "immediately galvanised" the region, with some leaders "quick to cheer Petro on".

Latin America accounts for 21.3% of the US's foreign trade, according to the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean: more than $1 trillion. By treating Latin American nations as if they were "still banana republics which would bend over backward to fulfil the US government's wishes", wrote Cruz Bonlarron Martínez in The Hill, Trump "gravely underestimates their power as a united bloc".

But it's not a united bloc, said Flavia Bellieni Zimmermann on the Australian Institute of International Affairs' blog. Trump can call on two "key strategic allies", including Argentina's Maga-adjacent Javier Milei and Brazil's former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, who is seeking a comeback.

Even so, most leaders in the region "do not like how the US government is behaving", said Quico Toro in The Atlantic. "Trump's hyper-aggressive approach to Latin America risks tying up the region with a bow and leaving it on Beijing's doorstep."

What next?
Xiomara Castro, the president of Honduras and head of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), called an emergency summit of the region's leaders on 30 January. It could "revive a unified anti-Trump bloc", said CNN's Oppmann.

"Celac is the platform for China in Latin America," Michael Shifter, a fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue think-tank, told the FT. The summit is a "kind of proxy" for showing Washington that if it is "really going to punish us", then "China's willing to fill the gap".

The Mona Lisa will be moved to a new space in Paris' Louvre museum, following warnings about overcrowding and crumbling infrastructure.

Speaking in front of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, President Emmanuel Macron said the famous work will have a "special space" as part of what he called "a new renaissance" at the museum.

Leaks and buckets
Around 75% of the museum's 30,000 daily visitors go to see Leonardo da Vinci's painting, but the experience has "become an endurance test", said the BBC, with a "constant crowd being funnelled through", who only have "on average 50 seconds to observe the picture and take photos".

An employee told France24 that, "on a daily basis", there are "a lot of problems with water infiltration via roofs and broken pipes", and "when there is heavy rain, water run-off sometimes reaches paintings on display". To deal with leaks, said another employee, staff often "end up putting buckets in offices".

Macron's new Renaissance
Macron set out details of his New Renaissance project, which includes an international competition to design a second entrance to relieve the growing pressure of visitor numbers beneath the famous glass Pyramid.

He said the overhaul would not cost the French taxpayer "a single centime", because the renovations, which will cost an estimated £587 million to £671 million, will come from the museum's "own resources". But he had bad news for UK art lovers: visitors from outside the EU will have to pay more than those from within the bloc, to help fund the changes.

Misguided snobbery
The decision to move the Mona Lisa is a "misguided act of snobbery", said Jonathan Jones in The Guardian. Moving the famous work to a "special hygienically isolated gallery" where "les idiots" won't "bother more cultured visitors" may ruin the Louvre's "ecosystem as a place where high art becomes popular culture".

But Macron's powers have been "significantly curtailed" since he lost control of the French parliament, said the BBC, so he's been looking for a "new cause" to "assure his legacy".

The opening episode of Disney+'s glossy new series, "Paradise", will "have you hooked", said Lucy Mangan in The Guardian.

Set in what appears to be the "classic American idyll" (a wealthy suburban town with big houses and perfectly manicured gardens), the action follows Xavier Collins (Sterling K. Brown), a Secret Service agent tasked with protecting President Cal Bradford (James Marsden). When Bradford winds up dead, "murdered by a person or persons unknown", Collins finds himself the prime suspect.

A "masterclass in seamless flashbacks and forwards", "Paradise" is a "twisty and pretty terrific new popcorn-on-the-sofa" TV thriller, said James Jackson in The Times. As we gradually get to know the characters, we realise something isn't quite right with their "utopian world", and "villainous skulduggery" is afoot.

It's true that sometimes "credulity is stretched beyond breaking point" but you still feel compelled to keep watching, if only to "find out what the hell is really going on". The "big reward" comes in the "full-blown, hyper-tense depiction of something terrible and terrifying" in episode seven: "one of the most exciting hours of TV in months".

Migrants must be expected to integrate
Annabel Denham in The Telegraph
It's forecast that net migration could swell the UK population to 72.5 million by 2032, but politicians seem "remarkably complacent" about "what this means for social and cultural integration", writes Annabel Denham. How can we "imbue mutual obligation" and a "sense of common purpose" with "such massive cultural divergence"? Proper integration "takes work" and it's "dangerous" to think "it will happen by a mysterious process of osmosis".

Palestinians returning home will find nothing but dust and stones
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in The i Paper
The images of "homeward-bound Palestinians", the children's eyes "unbright and world-wary", writes Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, give me "panic attacks". Their homes, schools and hospitals, and "where the children played", are turned to rubble. Gazans "endure loss and personal injuries, mental collapse and emotional disintegration", while the "absolute exceptionalism" of Israel "is backed by every Western leader". But they "will survive because they are brave" and because "the cause for Palestinian statehood is just".

Hide your candlesticks! It’s the rise of the middle-class shoplifter
Carol Midgley in The Times
There's a "middle-class shoplifting boom", writes Carol Midgley, as shop owners "blame well-off, middle-aged women" for a spree of thefts in Surrey. Apparently, middle-class shoplifters are "caught more easily" than "career shoplifters" who "know where all the cameras are". Could the cost of living crisis be driving "entitled people" to keep up appearances "by trousering a driftwood candlestick"? Well, "standards mustn't drop", so "fill your Boden boots, madam: you're worth it".