President Gustavo Petro He criticized that his American counterpart, Donald Trump, He has considered Bogotá among the worst places of the world without ever having been in the city.
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“If you don’t know Bogotá, you can’t know. President Trump should know, and if not, they tell him, that Bogotá is one of the places on the earth where a single hunger child does not die, that is done by one of the best places on Earth“Petro wrote in his X account.
Trump said Monday, announcing that he takes federal control of the Washington DC police and the deployment of at least 800 national guard personnel under the justification that “insecurity is out of control“, that Bogotá is among the worst places in the world.
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From the White House Press Room, Trump drew an image of an American capital out of crime, saying that homicides are much higher than in places that are considered “The worst of the world“, such as Bogotá and Mexico City.
The Mayor’s Office of Bogotá, city of about eight million inhabitants, He has not spoken about Trump’s comments.
“The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogotá, Colombia, and Mexico City (…) those places that you hear that are the worst of the world“said the president, who said the US capital”It is under attack of violent gangs, criminals, peanuts and vagrants and this cannot happen more“
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Avianca and the District Tourism Institute (IDT) launched the Stopover Bogotá program.
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The Republican was based on graphics that collect the 2024 murder rate in which it is seen that Washington – where 27.54 were recorded per 100,000 inhabitants – leads the classification and practically bends the one followed, Bogotá (15.1 per 100,000), And others such as Mexico City, Islamabad, Lima, Ottawa, Paris or Havana.
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