President Gustavo Petro spoke in alocution on Tuesday. Although a day before he said it was to defend his decree with which They seek to apply several aspects of health reform Without going through Congress, in the end he made a defense of what he has called the achievements of his three years of government.
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The president began his speech ensuring that they tried to censor him in the artistic event that was held in the celebration for the 500 years of the Santa Marta Foundation. He also assured that they allegedly did the same with their speech on July 20, despite the fact that their two and a half hours were transmitted as speech by all national channels.
The president began his government defense talking about what his economic achievements would be. First he spoke of the percentage of incidence of monetary poverty. He highlighted what had been achieving from the Santos governmentbut questioned his predecessor, Iván Duque. “Duke arrives and ended up to the bitch’s nest”Petro said, he did not take into account that these figures start from the difficulties of the contingency of the Covid.
The president stressed that he managed to lower that indicator to 28.3 percent, being one of the lowest of the century. Petro said that is one of his great achievements. “For this I came to govern, I did not come from Parranda. Nobody takes here while working, already in what it does in their particular life is something else,” The president said, referring to the controversy that occurred at the beginning of the week by the trills revealed by Vicky Dávila.
President Petro followed his balance talking about inequality. Although he acknowledged that they have been able to do little in this area, “0.55 (ãndice de Gini) is one of the largest in the world”, He said they have made changes to their predecessor. “It is not a good statistic with respect to the past-the Santos Government-“, The president said, who assured that success in that government was for one of its tax reforms.
That is why critic the position of some sectors that do not want to process their tax reform proposal. “That is called populism”was the critic of President Petro against that sector contrary to his tax reform, because He assured that he seeks with this project to obtain the resources They are necessary for basic issues such as army financing, health and other public sectors.
Gustavo Petro made a parenthesis to criticize some sectors that have questioned the ruling against former president Álvaro Uribe. “Disrespect justice saying that it should not be imprisoned”, He said the executive’s head, who above all criticized those who are supposedly looking for sanctions against Colombia in the United States for that ruling. “They are traitors of the country, they are not opposition, because the opposition does not make those indignities.”he sentenced.
The Colombian president resumed his balance saying that they have not been able to improve in the issues of inequality because the Bank of the Republic has not dropped sufficiently, in its criteria, the interest rate to encourage consumption in society. “The fault that this Gino does not fall is of the interest rate that is rewarding the richest in Colombia to the detriment of the national economy,” It was Petro’s criticism.
However, he assured that they have achieved a great improvement because they have increased the minimum wage in a considerable way in recent years. “We have given on the nail without falling into the neoliberal dogma”he said.
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Then, he went on to talk about the growth and falls in different economic areas. He stressed that in his three years the extraction of coal and oil has fallen. He pointed out that this fall is really due to the lack of purchase of hydrocarbons at the international level. “It will fall more because science has taught humanity that we are going to die if we continue consuming coal”he sentenced at this point.
Instead, he celebrated the growth of agriculture. Above all, he emphasized that in 2024 he reached 10.4, “Chinese growth rate”. Petro stressed above all that these sectors imply a growth of the real economy. “No government has dropped so much monetary poverty,” Gustavo Petro reiterated.
President Petro talked about the exploitation and use of hydrocarbons. He said that the country has reservations until almost for a century, but that these should not be used due to carbon dioxide production. He acknowledged that natural gas reserves have dropped, But he said that what should be done is to seek the energy transition and not make more exploration to increase the stock.
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THE BALANCE IN EDUCATION
The second theme was education. At a first point he responded to criticism for the decrease in resources for Icetex. Also to the controversy with the representative Katherine Juvinao on behalf of the amount of quotas created in public universities. He remained that in 2025 more than 195,000 quotas have created. The representative has said that it is not so, because a good part of those quotas were already.
Petro criticized scholarship policy in private universities, such as ‘Being Pay Pilie’ programs. He said that with that same money they have been able to open more quotas in the public university. Gustavo Petro especially highlighted the growth of recent years, because he said that in the first moments of his mandate there were no major changes. “That happens to us to have loose and warm ministers,” He expressed, referring to Alejandro Gaviria and Aurora Vergara.
Then he went on to talk about gross coverage, which would have grown in his three years of mandate, LLeaving 57.53 percent in this last year. In that same line, he stressed that in its administration the coverage in rural areas has grown, as it would have gone from 39.7 in 2022 to 45.9 percent in 2025. “We are finishing discrimination Ciudad Campo in Youth”Petro said.
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The balance in health
President Gustavo Petro happened in a third act to analyze what he has considered as health achievements. Above all, he celebrated the decrease in the childhood mortality rate. In that sense, He assured that the preventive approach is already giving results and must be enhanced with the approval of health reform. According to Petro, it is the best year of his government in that he has dropped the mortality rate of children under one year to 10.37.
“This is the government of life and we go for more”, declared. At a time mentioned that there is a fall of 32 percent cases of children under one year old. Then he went on to talk about the perinatal mortality rate, in which he would have gone from a rate of 15.54 to 13.63. “Where are the anti -abortionists, this is to take care of life “, declared.
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At this point he went on to defend the decree with which he seeks to implement a good part of the health reform: “And so they want us to suspend the preventive health model. They want to end the decree and thus children in Colombia die.” This was supposed to be the main point in his speech and only touched this issue 1 hour and 44 minutes after having started his speech.
Just after this point, the president went against the magistrate of the Constitutional Court José Fernando Reyes, Well, the Togado has said that the Government has not proved that the UPC It is sufficient for the operation of the EPS.
The president then exposed a graph that he used in a trill on Monday in which the mortality rate for treatable causes in the OECD is discussed. He used this graph to say that he is in the worst places and that is why his vision of the preventive health system should be implemented.
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