2024-04-02 01:41:07
The Argentine’s statements will be broadcast in an interview with CNN En Español next Sunday.
The Government of Colombia ordered this morning the expulsion of diplomats from the Argentine Embassy in Bogotáin response to the sayings of Javier Miley towards his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, during a interview with CNN en Español channel.
During the conversation, which will premiere on Sunday the 31st, the Argentine president is seen referring to Petro as “murderer and terrorist“. In this way, she took advantage and also He called his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, ignorant.
“The Government of Colombia orders the expulsion of diplomats from the Argentine embassy in Colombia. The scope of this decision will be communicated to the Argentine Embassy through diplomatic institutional channels,” the Foreign Ministry stated.
“It’s not the first time that Mr. Milei offends the Colombian president, affecting the historical relations of brotherhood between Colombia and Argentina,” the Foreign Ministry recalled.
Following this line, they declared that Argentina deteriorated the confidence of the Colombian nationFurthermore, he offended the dignity of the democratically elected President Petro.
The friction between Javier Milei and Gustavo Petro
On January 26 of this year, the Government of Colombia called to consult the Argentine ambassador in that country, Camilo Romeroafter Milei said that Gustavo Petro “He is a murderous communist who is sinking the country“.
On that occasion the statements were made during an interview with the journalist Patricia Janiotwhich provoked the reaction of the Foreign Ministry.
“They ignore and violate los deep ties of friendshipunderstanding and cooperation that have historically united Colombia and Argentina, and that is why Ambassador Camilo Romero was immediately called for consultations,” they noted in a statement.
One month after, on February 24the Colombian Government once again expressed its rejection of the irresponsible statements by the Argentine presidentor, who referred to his counterpart from Colombia as a plague.
On that occasion, the Colombian television channel NTN24 interviewed Milei after leaving the annual convention of the American right held in National Harbor, a Maryland.
When asked about what he thinks of Gustavo Petro, Milei said that “is sinking the Colombiansthat is, that It is a lethal pest for the Colombians themselves.”
The relationship between both leaders has never been good, even since the Argentine was a presidential candidate. At the time the president of Colombia went against Milei for his derogatory comments about socialists, comparing his ideas with those of Hitler.