President Gustavo Petro He answered his similar to Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, after the Central American president pointed out the Colombian competing to be the representative of the United States in Latin America.
(See: Venezuela: Petro and Lula insist on the release of minutes showing Maduro’s victory).
“Daniel Ortega has called us ‘tramps’, just because we want a negotiated, peaceful and democratic solution in Venezuela. Such an insult allows me to answer him: at least I do not trample on the human rights of the people of my country and even less those of my comrades in arms and in the struggle against dictatorships.“, wrote Petro on his social network X account, this Tuesday, August 27.
Daniel Ortega has called us “sluggards” just because we want a peaceful and democratic negotiated solution in Venezuela.
Such an insult allows me to answer:
At least I am not dragging down the human rights of the people of my country and even less those of my comrades in arms and in struggle…
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) August 27, 2024
The words of the Colombian head of state came a day after Ortega stated that Petro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the president of Brazil, are in a ‘head to head’ to represent the United States in the region.
“Petro, what can I say to Petro? Poor Petro, poor Petro. I see Petro as competing with Lula to see who will be the leader who will represent the ‘yankis’ in Latin America.“Ortega declared during a virtual summit with heads of state of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), on Monday, August 26.
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“This is how I see Petro, but poor Petro does not have the strength that Brazil logically has.“, added Ortega, who He criticized his colleagues for not recognizing the re-election of his ally, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in the controversial elections of July 28.
Petro and Lula’s position on Venezuela
Lula and Petro have insisted on the need for Venezuela to release the electoral records “broken down by voting table” for the elections on Sunday, July 28. This position of both leaders was consolidated after Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) endorsed Maduro’s victory.
“Both presidents remain convinced that the credibility of the electoral process can only be restored through the transparent publication of disaggregated and verifiable data.“, according to a joint statement by Colombia and Brazil released last Saturday, August 24.
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The two heads of state reaffirmed that “the political normalization of Venezuela” passes through “the recognition that there is no lasting alternative to peaceful dialogue and democratic coexistence in diversity“.
So they both called “to all those involved to avoid resorting to acts of violence and repression“.
The Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) declared Maduro the winner without having published the disaggregated results, while the largest opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), ensures that Edmundo González Urrutia won the race by a wide margin.
(See: Petro’s defense of a close businessman and a ban on coal exports to Israel).
Other 11 countries in America (Chile, Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, United States, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic and Uruguay) They have already rejected the TSJ’s endorsement of Maduro.
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