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Colombia's election: How could the voters be so stupid? They just elected a far-left Hugo Chavez-adoring freak named Gustavo Petro for president
American Thinker ^ | 06/21/2022 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 06/21/2022 9:40:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Colombia, which is America's strongest ally, has always had the most level-headed voters in the region.

They've had two conservative parties, sometimes at once, and voters there have always rejected the crazy left, which in their case, is a Castro-grade revolutionary crazy grade of left, with Bill Ayers-types on steroids. They did, after all, fight a 60-year war against Marxist narcoterrorists, with only a few university wokesters defending them.

So it was shocking news that on Sunday, Colombians went and elected just about the worst leftist of this stripe, a former M-19 narcoguerrilla named Gustavo Petro, president, turning one of the most conservative countries in the region to the far left for the first time. The freak belonged to the M-19 narcoterrorist outfit that operated in the 1980s and 1990s, aligning itself at some point with Pablo Escobar himself. That group blew up the Colombian Supreme Court -- with all the justices in it -- and a huge loss of life.

No normal person would join a detested group like that. After that, Petro went on to whoop it up with Hugo Chavez as the best of radical leftist allies, and like Chesa Boudin, became "an advisor" to the late, unlamented, Venezuelan thug. Petro and Chavez go way back, as this tweet suggests:

Picture of Colombia’s new president Gustavo Petro with the great socialist leader Hugo Chavez

pic.twitter.com/gCkp5diZGx — Profé (@ProtestaBloc) June 20, 2022

Venezuela wasn't a warning to Petro, it was the playbook.

After that, he became a lousy blue-city mayor of Bogota for a stretch, reducing the quality of life same as is seen in blue cities here. He had to have had some kinds of political skills, given his record both as a reviled leftist terrorist and a crappy mayor.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden4commies; bidenacommie; boudin; chesaboudin; colombia; columbia; commies; communism; gustavopetro; hugochavez; leftist; m19; narcoterrorists; pabloescobar; putin; venezuela; xi
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To: rktman

Yeah, they’ll believe that!


41 posted on 06/21/2022 10:57:28 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Reily

LOL! They’ll just move here where the stuff really is free. For them. Costing us a 💩 load though.


42 posted on 06/21/2022 11:09:26 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: SeekAndFind
Next step will be to make common cause with Venezuela, Cuba, China and Russia. Team Biden is probably happy.
43 posted on 06/21/2022 11:14:03 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, this means hordes of Columbians will be fleeing that country in a couple years.


44 posted on 06/21/2022 11:27:58 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: wbarmy

Bkmk


45 posted on 06/21/2022 11:31:21 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: SeekAndFind

What brand of vote tallying equipment was used in this election?


46 posted on 06/21/2022 11:35:50 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ummm…asking the obvious:

Did they really???


47 posted on 06/21/2022 11:43:07 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: SeekAndFind

The same way we elected Retardo and the Slut to our highest offices. The communist/democrats stuffed the ballot boxes across this great country with millions of votes.


48 posted on 06/21/2022 12:00:15 PM PDT by dirtymac ( Now Is The Time For All Good Men To ComeTo The Aid Of Their Country! NOWhx) )
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To: SeekAndFind

How could the voters be so stupid? They just elected a far-left Hugo Chavez-adoring freak named Gustavo Petro for president

The American public doesn’t appear to be any smarter


49 posted on 06/21/2022 12:12:53 PM PDT by saintgermaine (Saintgermain the time traveler)
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To: SeekAndFind

The “Dominion” vote tabulators never make mistakes.

It’s all planned ahead.


50 posted on 06/21/2022 12:15:33 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, prolly most people didn’t vote.


51 posted on 06/21/2022 12:25:22 PM PDT by exnavy (Grow your faith, and have the courage to use it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

MASSIVE CHEATING?????


52 posted on 06/21/2022 12:37:27 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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To: SeekAndFind

...or did they?


53 posted on 06/21/2022 12:39:20 PM PDT by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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