The President Gustavo Petro referred again to the issue of Colombian deportees from the United States, which generated great tensions in diplomatic matters on January 26 with President Donald Trump; This time he did it in an interview with Univision, which was known recently.
On the situation, Petro said: “What we are raising is that Colombia will not receive any Colombian or Colombian handcuff because the migrant is no criminal“After Trump will threaten tariffs and close the visa procedure center.
Also, in the dialogue with the Colombian journalist Félix de Bedout, on the deportees who arrived on Thursday, in which, apparently, some citizens came handcuffed, Petro said that that happened “without the president knowing“. In the interview clip you hear The president ensures that Colombians who are deported cannot arrive handcuffed.
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“The president’s position is that COLOMBIAN OR HEAD COLOMBIANS FIVE HERE, unless he is a proven criminal. The totality of those who have arrived in these four trips, no proven offender. To that extent, they should not arrive“Petro said
Similarly, the president recalled that this situation in which Colombia stopped deportation trips had already occurred in the past: “It is not the first time that we suspend US flights. UU. With returnees Colombians. We did it on May 5, 2023 with the same demand; The returnees are brought on commercial flights and without handcuff. We start dialogues for a decent treatment protocol that has not yet been specified”
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The president’s statements were accompanied by a statement dated May 2023 of Migration Colombiain which the reasons for the measure are explained: “Failure to comply with the agreements on humanitarian treatment to returned Colombians and cancellation by the United States Department of Security of the first two flights of the Concerted Pilot Plan, were the reasons why migration Colombia in agreement with the Foreign Ministry temporarily suspended temporarily Several flights from that country this week“
The Head of State, later, I assure that airplanes will continue to be sent to repatriate Colombians deported by the Trump government, also saying that it has a folder send cruises.
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“A cruise, depending on its size, you can carry 1,000, 2,000, 4,000, 5,000 and up to 6,000 people; And so we can solve the problem more easily“he said, also explaining that the financing of this strategy will leave the General Budget of the Nation.
“The budget, according to the Constitution, has a prioritization, which is human dignity. I know there are discussions, at this time, bilateral between various countries and many are encrypted around the goods. But merchandise is no more important than a human being. The world in which we have lived in the last decades breasts thus presents“Petro added.
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