The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, assured this Thursday that he had a scuffle with his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei, at the G20 summit held in Rio de Janeiro, and He said that the confrontation was not known because the delegation of that country hid the videos.
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The discussion, according to the Colombian head of state, had its origin when in that forum, to which he was invited, he explained that joint work and not individual work is the basis for achieving progress in the countries.
“Joint work. This was the issue with which I fought (sic) with Milei verbally at the meeting of the largest and most powerful of the G20 that does not appear anywhere on world television communication, nor in Colombia,” he assured this Thursday in an official event.
Petro explained that those moments did not appear anywhere because “The Argentine delegation, to which they gave the videos of their intervention, hid it, they did not publish it. They did not like something about what happened there.”
“I published my intervention and it has to do with this economic and political precept that humanity only advances by helping itself,” he stated.
Petro added: “that idea that they proclaim as a disruptive discourse on Argentine television is not disruptive, it is an anachronistic discourse, of thinking that the progress of the human being is based on a competition of individuals who, like isolated atoms, try to trip up the other in order to progress.”
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“That’s how it is among nations and then they kill themselves among nations believing that this is progress. Humanity has never been able to remain on the planet by killing itself, but by helping itself.”Petro assured in reference to the speech that supposedly motivated the displeasure.
This is another confrontation between Petro and Milei, located at ideological opposites. Last March, the Colombian Government ordered the expulsion of diplomats from the Argentine Embassy in Bogotá, in response to Milei’s repeated insults to Petro, whom he called “terrorist killer.”
That measure, revoked weeks later, It was the culmination of a series of offenses by the Argentine president, which in January of this year also led the Government of Colombia to call its ambassador in Buenos Aires, Camilo Romero, for consultations, after Milei said that Petro “He is a murderous communist who is sinking” to the country.
Petro has also charged against Milei. One of them was last September at the United Nations when, without citing him, he criticized his motto. “Long live freedom, damn it,” when speaking before the UN General Assembly about the submission of politics to the power of the richest.
EFE
