2024-05-04 03:13:32
In his speech from the Plaza de Bolívar in Bogotá, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that his government will break diplomatic relations with Israel.
This announcement occurs in the midst of the demonstrations on May 1, Labor Daywhere Petro took the opportunity to address the conflict in the Middle East.
«If Palestine dies, humanity dies and we are not going to let it die«said the Colombian president before a crowd gathered in the main square of the capital.
Petro declared: «Here before you, the Government of Change, the President of the Republic informs that tomorrow diplomatic relations with the State of Israel will be broken, for having a government, for having a genocidal president.»
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The Colombian president emphasized the need for international solidarity and denounced the horrors suffered by the Palestinian people: “Today, perhaps, the world could be summarized in one word, perhaps all the slogans, all those colors could be summarized in a single word, that vindicates the need for life, rebellion, the raised flag and resistance, that word is called Gaza, it is called Palestine, it is called the girls, the boys, the babies who have died dismembered by the bombs.
Petro stressed that Colombia’s decision to break diplomatic relations with Israel reflects the feelings of humanity: “Today, all of humanity, in the streets, by the millions, agrees with us, and we with it.. It cannot be, it cannot return, the times of genocide, of the extermination of an entire people before our eyes, before our passivity, cannot come. If Palestine dies, humanity dies, and we are not going to let it die.
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