He President Gustavo Petro said Monday that progressivism has to “light the light when darkness arrive“, after the summit in favor of democracy held in Santiago, Chile.
“World progressivism must get together worldwide and light the light when darkness arrive and begin to frighten the soul“Petro said from the La Moneda Palace (Chilean government headquarters)next to their peers Spain, Chile, Brazil and Uruguay.
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President Gustavo Petro
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Petro was the first progressive president to take the floor after the baptized meeting ‘Always Democracy’, which was followed by the Uruguayan, Yamandú Orsi; the president of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez; The Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and the Chilean, Gabriel Boric.
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Petro said that during the meeting the leaders “They further deepened our basic and not so basic agreements that have to do with the climatic crisis, artificial intelligence, the peace of the world, remake multilaterality or defend words as basic as freedom and democracy“
The proposals resulting from the summit will be presented at another meeting that will be given within the framework of the 80 ° Session of the United Nations General Assemblyscheduled for September, in New York, United States.
High level summit ‘democracy always’
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After the meeting in La Moneda, progressive leaders had lunch with intellectuals such as the American economist and Nobel Prize Joseph Stiglitz, the American philosopher Susan Neiman or the South Korean economist specialized in Ha-Joon Chang development strategies.
Subsequently, They will hold a meeting with representatives of more than 300 Chilean civil society organizations.
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