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TRANSLATION OF STATEMENT FROM PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA
https://x.com ^ | Jan 26 2025 | President Gustavo Petro

Posted on 01/26/2025 2:13:17 PM PST by frogjerk

TRANSLATION OF STATEMENT FROM PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA.

Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.

I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller.

I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country.

I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.

You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid.

They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else.

Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.

Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs.

My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.

You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us.

Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.

I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA.

Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world.

I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness.

FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.

I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: colombia; columbia; communist; deportations; despot; gundog; gundogdegenerate; gundogwanksonfr; gustavopetro; lindayepes; marxist; personanongrata; trump
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This guy is going to be humbled very shortly.
1 posted on 01/26/2025 2:13:17 PM PST by frogjerk
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To: frogjerk

Colombia’s Petro Backs Down: Sending Personal Plane to Pick Up Migrants After Trump Announced Sanctions
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/26/colombias-petro-backs-down-sending-personal-plane-to-pick-up-migrants-after-trump-announced-sanctions/


2 posted on 01/26/2025 2:14:29 PM PST by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: Tom Tetroxide

This post was after the back down.


3 posted on 01/26/2025 2:14:59 PM PST by frogjerk
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To: frogjerk

Columbians don’t buy American goods. The majority doesn’t have the money to buy American goods.


4 posted on 01/26/2025 2:15:13 PM PST by Jonty30 (If you ate your twin in the womb, your pronouns should be we/us.)
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To: frogjerk

“FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS...”

Except for my own people. I hate my own people so don’t send any more flights of them down here.


5 posted on 01/26/2025 2:16:26 PM PST by anonsquared
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To: frogjerk

Delusional pendejo.


6 posted on 01/26/2025 2:16:28 PM PST by dadgum (Trump 2024)
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To: frogjerk

Now he wants the Canal back too?

This guy is hallucinating.


7 posted on 01/26/2025 2:17:05 PM PST by canuck_conservative (Russia lies all the time)
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To: frogjerk

Thanks for posting. Too many FReepers have been lead to believe that Columbia has backed down on accepting deportees.


8 posted on 01/26/2025 2:18:13 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: frogjerk

Pretty lousy opus...


9 posted on 01/26/2025 2:18:15 PM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: frogjerk

Wow, if that post is legitimate, it sounds like Columbia is going to suffer for electing such a fool.


10 posted on 01/26/2025 2:18:24 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

They will receive the ones that we just sent but no more. But they will.


11 posted on 01/26/2025 2:19:17 PM PST by frogjerk
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“… you consider me an inferior race and I’m not, nor is any Colombian.”

That is an idiotic statement. Columbian is not a race, even Hispanic is not a race, so what is he talking about?

Oh! He didn’t get the memo. DEI is dead so Greenuism. Flying the rainbow flag is not going to help him.


12 posted on 01/26/2025 2:20:36 PM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: frogjerk

Columbia makes bank selling long stem roses for Valentines day

Columbia can cut the price per unit, or let those roses rot


13 posted on 01/26/2025 2:21:10 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: Tom Tetroxide

Sounds like a Bee article! 😂


14 posted on 01/26/2025 2:21:34 PM PST by alstewartfan (Child slavery, rape and drug OD's mean nothing to Roberts and Barrett. )
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To: canuck_conservative

Your post is confusing. Are you saying Trump is delusional because Trump was the canal back?


15 posted on 01/26/2025 2:21:37 PM PST by frogjerk
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To: anonsquared

Is he descended from colonizers? I suspect that he is, and many of the undesirables that he doesn’t want back are of aboriginal American stock.


16 posted on 01/26/2025 2:22:37 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: frogjerk

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/colombia/factsheets/


17 posted on 01/26/2025 2:24:16 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: frogjerk

Block ALL remittances from the US to Columbia.


18 posted on 01/26/2025 2:24:28 PM PST by anonsquared
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Remittances in Colombia increased to 3052.70 USD Million in the third quarter of 2024 from 2906.77 USD Million in the second quarter of 2024. Remittances in Colombia averaged 1132.12 USD Million from 1996 until 2024, reaching an all time high of 3052.70 USD Million in the third quarter of 2024 and a record low of 162.44 USD Million in the second quarter of 1998. source: Banco de la Republica, Colombia
19 posted on 01/26/2025 2:24:49 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead
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To: frogjerk

Makes me wonder who from the deep state or the democrat party contacted this guy and urged him to defy Trump.


20 posted on 01/26/2025 2:25:54 PM PST by Yogafist
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