He President Gustavo Petro He headed a new Council of Ministers where the central theme was anti -drug policy. That occurs two weeks after the United States Government described Colombia in fights against drug trafficking.
The cabinet meeting began with the Director of the Presidency Administrative Department, Angie Rodríguezreading a letter in the name of the cabinet to thank the president.
“Mr. President and fellow president, as spokeswoman for those who accompany their steps, today we want to recognize the historical force of their recent intervention in the United Nations. His just call to claim for the inertia of those who handle the destinations of the world was a message of truth, dignity and courage that confronted the powerful, and without hesitation denounced the complicity against genocide in Gaza and the failure of the war against drug trafficking“He starts saying.
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President Gustavo Petro
Ramón Campos – Embassy of Colombia in the US.
And he added: “You once again showed the coherence in your life project when taking sides as it did, when being a young revolutionary he put on the side of the humblest and most vulnerable. Today each act in the exercise of the popular mandate as head of state providing orders to this cabinet interprets the needs of those who mostly wanted you to direct the destinies of the country“
Also, in the document they point out that the president has the support of his entire cabinet. “With his words in the UN that our country is no longer condemned to silence, but called to lead with courage the defense of a new universal concept, humanity as a subject of rights, eliminating the odious discriminations that only serve those who persist in perpetuating new slavery“
Cancellation of visas
President Petro also referred to the The United States decision to remove the visa for inciting the army of that country to disobey its legitimate commander.
“If Mr. Trump remains an accomplice of a genocide as until today, he does not deserve more but the prison and his army should not obey it as his army“He said during the Council of Ministers.
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Visa to the United States
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And he added: “Twenty million young people from the United States voted by Biden stopped voting. That’s why Trump won, not for more. Twenty million disappointed young people because his government supported the massacre in Gaza“
Also, he announced that with the United States the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and will cease to have treated free trade with Israel.
Anti -drug policy
Following this, the Head of State talked about the anti -drug policy that he assured that he wants it to be called ‘anti -brackets’.
He spoke again of the decrtification by the Government of Donald Trump and assured that it was not a decision against him, but against a country.
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“In the most unfair way to the only country that puts dead almost every day, the only country that has had more dead in the million Latin Americans who have died killed in the badly called fighting against drugs“, said.
The president also spoke of an alleged talk of a member of the National Intelligence Directorate in the US. where he would have assured that Colombia was not going to ban fentanyl. “I want to know if it is a lie of the gringos trying to harm Colombia or has something really,” he said. He then asked to change Colombia’s delegates in that country.
The United States accused Maduro in 2020, during the first presidency of Donald Trump, for crimes of drug trafficking and terrorism.
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Also, they assured that the DNI has not received any request or information from the United States National Security Advisor office on an eventual closure to the passage of chemical precursors for the production of fentanyl.
In the same sense, he proposed to create a treaty between United States, China, Mexico, Colombia “In the search for surveillance to the Pacific Ocean“
Relations with China were also within the issues discussed by Petro, who said there are members of the Foreign Ministry that makes them sorry for that country.
“Here is a Foreign Ministry that makes it sad to relate to China and sabote relationships. Then those people have to leave. I want relations with all the peoples of the world, not with one. That is not relations with humanity, that is colonialism. The change of embassy staff in China sabote the relationships, change my agendas, cancels quotes, without knowing“He said.
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Experts warn that coca crops and cocaine production in Colombia are increasing.
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Also, he expressed his disagreement for the delay in the signing of the contract for the acquisition of flu combat aircraft.
“Nothing that the influenza arrive or signed contract”, Referring to the Air Force renewal project announced last April and pointed out that the armament supply must prioritize internal needs.
“I had asked, Mrs. Angie (Rodríguez) director of the DaPre, that the priority project were not only the airplanes, but the weapons needed by military forces”Said the first president.
The president re -applied the rearview mirror and left against former President Iván Duque. “Duke’s fault is not to continue anti -drug policy“He said.
And about the increase in coca crops, he said “It owes to the growth of cocaine consumption in Europe“
Time – Politics
