2023-05-02 08:46:28
Days after he replaced seven ministers and hours before landing in Spain, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petrohas delivered a May Day speech celebrating the liberation “from the Spanish yoke”that “they condemned the black man to be slaves – the concordance error is his – for perpetuity”.
The former member of the terrorist group Movimiento 19 de abril, known as M-19 or El Eme, will make a state visit to Spain from Tuesday to May 5. And he has preceded her by a populist, radical and anti-Spanish discourse from the balcony of the Palacio de Nariño, on the Plaza de Armas in Bogotá, together with his wife, Verónica Alcocer, and before hundreds of protesters.
what for The country it was a “vindication of the left-liberal tradition”, in reality it was a compendium of communist and indigenist topics. Petro said that the Colombian people fought for “break free from the Spanish yoke, to dethrone kings and dukes and princesto put an end to privileges, to put an end to a productive slave-owning regime that condemned black men to be slaves for perpetuity (…) The liberating army was more powerful than the yoke’s army”.
In these, he charged against the ranchers, whom he accuses of not wanting to sell their farms so that he can distribute them to plant agricultural products instead of raising cattle. Petro shouted that “the land is for those who work it”, not for “a group of heirs of feudals and slaveholders, who defend it from the humble, hiring private armies.” Already, he gave an ecological touch to the harangue: “It is not offered to us by a privileged sector that commits a crime against Humanity. Because in times of climate changenot producing on fertile land is a crime against humanity”.
In addition, the Colombian president warned legislators not to give them their political support: “The attempt to stifle the reforms can lead to a revolution“. “The people cannot fall asleep, it is not enough to win at the polls. What is needed is for the people to be mobilized, as they were with Bolívar,” he added.
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