The president of Amcham Colombia, María Claudia Lacouture, questioned Petro’s statements about military operations in the region.
The president of Amcham Colombia, María Claudia Lacouture.
The president of the Colombian Chamber (Amcham Colombia), María Claudia Lacouture, questioned this Sunday the statements of President Gustavo Petro about the scope of foreign military operations in the region, in the context of the new executive order signed by the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
The reaction occurred after Petro said that “any military operation that does not have the approval of the countries Brothers is an aggression against Latin America and the Caribbean. ”
The Colombian president referred to Trump’s decision to authorize the use of military forces against posters that Washington has designated as terrorist organizations, a measure that could be applied in countries in the region, including Venezuela.
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In a message on the social network X, Lacouture questioned that position and stated: “Brotherhood of peoples or complicity with a dictatorship?” He added that “saying that any operation in Venezuela is aggression to Colombia is not diplomacy: It is to turn to the country and its forces to defend a dictator and a criminal. ”
The union leader stressed that the defense of the Latin American Brotherhood should not be confused with the protection of indicated regimes of violating rights and freedoms. “Defending the Brothers Peoples is not shielding dictators”he emphasized.
Lacouture pointed out that international relations should be oriented to safeguard people’s integrity and security, as well as to promote democracy and respect for the rule of law. “Regional cooperation must focus on protecting people, not to support governments that act against their own people,” he added.
The order signed by Trump has generated reactions in different governments and organizations in the region, which evaluate its implications for sovereignty and hemispheric security.
To this debate was added Senator María Fernanda Cabal, who indicated that the Military Forces of Colombia have the constitutional mission to defend sovereignty, The life, assets and honor of Colombians. He pointed out that they should not serve as a shield to a chief of the Los Soles cartelfor which the United States offers more than 500 million dollars due to narcoterrorism positions.
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Cabal said that the loyalty of the Armed Forces is with Colombia, not with internationally indicated dictators, and concluded telling President Gustavo Petro that he must better select his friends.
For his part, Tomás Uribe, son of former president Álvaro Uribe, referred to Petro’s support for his Venezuelan counterpart.
In his X account, he said that “The Picota Pact is the chapter-Colombia of the Los Soles poster. Petro and Maduro advance towards the consolidation of a binational narcosocialist block and multigenerational. The weight of the law and American military force must fall on them and their political allies. “
In turn, the candidate Vicky Dávila said on the issue that “the troop must only comply with the Constitution and combat the crime. There are not the armed forces forced to fulfill an order that goes against the Constitution and that protects a narco as Maduro. No and not. “
“Colombians and Venezuelans are the same people, but Maduro is a narcodicator, there you if you want to be your accomplice and partner. Colombians do not accept that and you do not represent us. Maduro is the chief of the ELN and the owner of the cocaine business in that area of the country. I hope the United States knocks down the narcodicator and returns democracy to Venezuela, “he said.
Source: Integrated information system
