This January 29, President Gustavo Petro referred to the issue of Colombian deportations from the United Statesexecuted by order of the president Donald Trumpand compared it to the actions of the Nazis with the Jews.
Petro assured that, among the learning of the situation that occurred with the US government last Sunday, for that country there should be the fact of not returning handcuffs to migrants.
“For example, if they are not repeating the same error as the Germans in 1943, because they used trains and iron lines to carry entire cars full of socialist and communist Jews for the concentration campand that use of money, resources, etc., times and energy, made them lose the war with the Soviet“The president said.
“All that cost of construction works in the United States, from companies in the United States, of the streets without sweeping in the United States, of agriculture that runs out of farmers, plus the cost of airplanes that -this time I assumed I, in the Colombian case- to transport millions and millions of immigrants, with gasoline, with crews, with different distances (van 7000 from India towards India), Is all that cost to boost the economy of the United States or will it stop it?“, Petro argued.
“That did not ask the German government of 1943 and failed“said the head of state, while He explained that this now happens with airplanes and not with trainsas happened in full Second World War.
“Criminals said they were, we brought 42 children, where here they will tell me that they are criminals. That is what they thought there in 1933, that humanity had overcome it. Groups cannot be criminalized, criminalization is individual that causes a crime, it is judged“: Petro said.
“Is it a Nazi mistake? Or rather, a crime against humanity. Fascism is an international crime, it is not a system of ideas, it is not an ideology, it is a criminal mentality that seeks to eliminate the difference physically killing and, therefore, to eliminate the difference I make the different criminal, but not to the person only but to the whole group and that group can be 100 million people“He said.
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The president’s statements occurred in the midst of the act of possession of Laura Sarabia as Minister of Foreign Affairs; Diego Guevara as Minister of Finance and the director of Dapre, Jorge Rojas.
Valentina Delgadillo Abello
Portfolio journalist
