Colombian President Gustavo Petro criticised Donald Trump in a scathing assertion, saying the US president goes to “wipe out the human species due to greed.” The put up got here after Petro introduced he can be imposing a 25% tariff on imported US items, hours after Trump stated he would do the identical as a result of the Colombian President rejected two planes carrying migrants.
‘You’ll kill me, however I’ll survive in my individuals’
“Trump, I do not actually like touring to the US, it is a bit boring, however I confess that there are some commendable issues,” Petro wrote on X. “I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, the place I noticed a complete battle within the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which appeared like nonsense to me, as a result of they need to be a part of collectively.”
“I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller,” he continued. “I confess that [Nicola] Sacco and [Bartolomeo] Vanzetti, who’ve my blood, are memorable within the historical past of the USA and I observe them. They had been murdered by labor leaders with the electrical chair, the fascists who’re throughout the USA in addition to inside my nation.”
“I do not like your oil, Trump, you are going to wipe out the human species due to greed,” Petro raged. “Possibly in the future, over a glass of whiskey, which I settle for, regardless of my gastritis, we are able to discuss frankly about this, but it surely’s tough since you contemplate me an inferior race and I am not, neither is any Colombian.”
“So if you recognize somebody who’s cussed, that is me, interval,” he added. “You possibly can attempt to perform a coup together with your financial power and your vanity, like they did with Allende. However I’ll die in my regulation, I resisted torture and I resist you. I do not need slavers subsequent to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves.”
“Petro went on to name Colombia “the guts of the world” and stated that Trump “did not perceive that.” “You’ll kill me, however I’ll survive in my individuals, which is earlier than yours, within the Americas,” he stated. “We’re peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.”
Petro additionally stated that he does “not shake palms with white slavers.” “I shake palms 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 strolling the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid,” he added.
Nevertheless, hours later, Petro reversed course about accepting flights of deported migrants from the US after Trump threatened emergency tariffs of as much as 50% on the nation. Petro even provided up the official Colombian presidential aircraft to assist convey migrants again to the nation, saying it was a response to “the Authorities’s dedication to ensure first rate circumstances.”
