VWP status for stays longer than 90 days in Mexico

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Your supposition is correct (you'd get 90 days in USA). The details are here but it may be simpler to consider the reason for the inclusion of time in Mexico (for example) being deemed to count towards the limit, when so deemed. The US wants to discourage visa runs, by making them expensive (ie long-distance). That puts an obstacle to maintaining a job in USA by someone who may not legally perform it.

The risk of such illegal work is not really a factor of the origin of the travel to USA of a VWP-eligible individual (eg Colombia or Mexico). Any further visit to USA shortly thereafter will be assessed on its own merits ("more strenuous" - as mentioned in the first link), separate from the assessment made for a first visit or one much earlier. The US takes the risk a VWP-eligible individual might work illegally for up to 90 days at a time but makes it difficult for such work to be a series of periods of up to 90 days each with only short intervals between each period.

Colombia => USA => Mexico should also give you up to 90 days in USA. It is USA featuring twice in such a string when the allowance in USA itself may be less than 90 days in total.

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