The leftist Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, called Daniel Ortega a “dictator” and stated that he “will never enter” Colombia again. The president’s statements were made during his participation in a forum in which he also took the opportunity to refer to the maritime dispute between Nicaragua and Colombia.
«He (Ortega) was a revolutionary like me, men from Colombia went to fight in the Sandinista Army. They stood shoulder to shoulder with the Nicaraguans fighting against the dictator and defeated him; They were men from M-19. That is why we have the moral authority to tell Ortega ‘you don’t come in here’. Because you are not going to be another revolutionary among the many who have gone over to the other side and from being a liberator to becoming a dictator,” Petro said.
Petro also mentioned, after his reference to Ortega, “you enter as a brother, not as a conqueror” and said that “empires end and free peoples always meet.”
This is not the first time that both leaders have faced each other. Months ago Ortega attacked Petro after the Colombian stated that there should be a national dialogue after accusations of fraud in the results of the elections in Venezuela and of which Maduro was proclaimed winner.
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«Poor Petro, poor Petro. “I see him competing with Lula to see who is going to be the leader who is going to represent the Yankees in Latin America,” Ortega said during an event broadcast on national television. The Sandinista dictator even described Petro as “dragged.”
Petro responded to Ortega’s accusations through Twitter and highlighted the human rights violations and repression of the Sandinista leader against the people of Nicaragua.
“At least I do not drag down the human rights of the people of my country, much less those of my comrades in arms and those who fight against dictatorships,” he published.
The Colombian leftist has attacked Ortega since 2018, accusing the Sandinista regime of building a tyranny in Nicaragua after the repression of anti-government protests; However, disqualifications are more frequent after the exile and denationalization of revolutionary leaders such as the writer Sergio Ramírez, the former guerrilla Dora María Téllez and the writer Gioconda Belli, to whom Colombia offered its nationality and solidarity.
