Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro slammed US President Donald Trump over his strategy to insurance policies and his alleged racial perspective as the 2 nations narrowly averted an all-out commerce battle after Bogota determined to simply accept migrant deportation flights from the US.
In a social media submit, Petro wrote that he hopes to in the future, “over a glass of whiskey”, speak about points with Donald Trump, including that it’s troublesome as he’s thought-about “inferior” by the newly sworn in US President.
In a prolonged viral submit on X, Columbia’s first left-wing president slammed Trump for his perspective towards Bogota and threatened retaliatory tariffs earlier than his authorities reversed course on the difficulty.
“You’ll kill me, however I’ll survive in my folks, which is earlier than yours, within the Americas. We’re peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and freedom,” Petro stated on X.
The White Home introduced the suspension of Trump’s retaliation plans for Colombia after Bogota diluted its earlier stance, asking the US to keep away from the “degrading remedy” of migrants and set up higher protocols.
Washington’s draft measures, now suspended, included imposing 25% tariffs on all Colombian items coming into the US, which might go as much as 50% in a single week; a journey ban and visa revocations on Colombian authorities officers; and emergency treasury, banking and monetary sanctions.
Slams Trump for ‘greed’
Petro prompt {that a} frank dialog with Trump can be troublesome because the US President considers Colombians an “inferior race.”
“I do not like your oil, Trump, you’ll wipe out the human species due to greed. 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 troublesome since you contemplate me an inferior race and I am not, neither is any Colombian,” Petro wrote.
The leftist chief additionally asserted that Trump’s threats don’t “scare” him and vowed to “resist”. Petro stated that his nation doesn’t look as much as the north anymore and likewise prompt a collective response from the Americas and the entire of humanity if Trump determined to “overthrow” him as Colombia’s president.
“You do not like our freedom, okay. I do not shake arms with white slavers. I shake arms 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,” Petro added.
