2024-04-02 23:55:24
World
The far-left leader was linked to the M-19 before devoting himself to politics, in which he has maintained intense diatribes with Álvaro Uribe.
He chose Barcelona to present his electoral program in Europe and had Oriol Junqueras on stage and Juan Carlos Monedero as the opening act. The European tour last January, which included a meeting with Pedro Sánchez, was organized by Enrique Iglesias, deputy of the Communist Party and advisor to the FARC in the peace negotiations in Cuba with the Santos Government. Also on the trip he included an important stop in Rome to hold a private meeting with the Pope. Although he tries to be perceived as a candidate without ideological biases, capable of uniting all Colombians, in his third attempt to win the presidency, Gustavo Petro has not been able to hide his extreme leftist tendency. Although he proclaims that in the 21st century there is no longer a division between right and left, but now there are two large fields: “The politics of life and the politics of death.” In the first he frames the Historical Pact, a movement created for the 2022 elections, to which the Democratic Pole, the Patriotic Union and the Colombian Communist Party belong, among others. In that of “death”, he includes Álvaro Uribe and the entire right. Despite his proposal to make Colombia “a power of love and affection”, he has hardened his speech and does not hesitate to call the government of Iván Duque a “murderer” or insinuate that the candidate of the center right and the traditional parties, the independent ‘Fico’ Gutiérrez, was behind one of the alleged attempts to take his life. Petro was born in Ciénaga de Oro, a town in the department of Córdoba, but the family soon moved to Zipaquirá, Boyance, in the center of the country, where he would begin both his political career as a councilor and his connection to the M-19 guerrilla.