The speech in New York on Palestine that cost the Visa to President Petro

President Gustavo Petro’s visa will be revoked, as reported by the United States Department of State on Friday, September 26 of this year, after the Colombian president had a pro-palestine discourse qualified as ‘incendiary’ by the entity.

“Today early, Colombian president Gustavo Petro stopped in a street in New York and urged US soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence. We will revoke Petro’s visa due to its reckless and incendiary actions“, they pointed out in the apartment of the department.

What did Petro say in New York?

The Colombian head of state had an intervention in the middle of a protest in favor of Palestine, which was carried out in Manhattan, in front of the United Nations headquarters (UN), where he urged the US army to disobey the president of that country, Donald Trumpand also He talked about the creation of an army that is more numerous than that of that nation to “free the Palestinians.”

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Petro began his speech indicating that he has Jewish friends: “I have nothing against the Jewish people, nor against the people of Israel, several are my friends; But the same, we train very young with combatants of the Palestinian liberal organization in Libya’s deserts, and We know about your fight for a long time“

In fact, the president recalled the times in which he militated in the M19: “When there was the April 19 movement (M19) that was supportive with Palestine, with the African National Congress, and that is why I made the following proposal, by the General Assembly of the peoples in the United Nations, We will present a resolution that says that the United Nations is ordered to configure a ‘Army of the Salvation of the World’ that has as the first task to free Palestine“

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In a row, the Colombian president said that if the two thirds of the nations vote in favor of this resolution, “We will be in a process called ‘United for Peace’, but for Palestine. The nations that vote if the resolution is approved, they will have the responsibility to configure this great unit with their own armies, first in the worldof an army that enforces the orders of international justice the nations of the world“

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“Then they will find trained and armed men and women to configure this great army, it has to be bigger than that of the United States“Petro added.

And the final statement that could have cost the president the revocation of his visa: “Therefore, from here in New York, I ask all the United States Army soldiers not to point their rifles against humanity. Disobess Trump’s order! Obey the Order of Humanity!“

Reactions to the United States decision

Former President Álvaro Uribe celebrated the measure taken by world power: “Colombia appreciates the noble gesture of the American government, of direct all the sanctions only and exclusively against those who have declared an enemy of Colombia and the United States“

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For his part, Bruce Mac Master, president of the Andi, said that due to the lack, the costs of it could be huge for the whole country: “We are not taking the country’s international relations seriously and responsibly. Costs can be immense to all citizens and that seems not to matter“

Valentina Delgadillo Abello
Portfolio journalist