'I don't shake fingers with white slavers': Colombian President's slams trump in defiant speech amid tariff battle
the usa and colombia clashed on sunday over the deportation of migrants and imposed price lists on every different's items in a show of what different nations should face if they interfere within the trump management's crackdown on unlawful immigration.
The White residence held up the episode as a caution to different international locations who may are searching for to hinder its plans.
but, the us stated that colombia has agreed to take flights sporting deported migrants from the united states after trump threatened steep tariffs on imports and other sanctions on the longtime US partner.
Following this, Colombian President Gustavo Petro put out a protracted publish on X describing trump as a "white slave owner" and saying that he may not "shake hands with him." In a passionate and defiant tweet, Colombian President Gustavo Petro brought a scathing critique folks President donald trump, addressing a number of historical grievances, political tensions, and troubles of sovereignty.
"Trump, I don't truely like traveling to the united states; it is a chunk dull, however I confess that there are a few commendable matters. i really like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, where I noticed a whole combat in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which appeared like nonsense to me due to the fact they need to be a part of together."
He said that he likes artists and poets like Walt Whitman, Paul Simon, and Noam Chomsky, including that Sacco and Vanzetti (Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti), who have his blood, are memorable within the history of the usa and he follows them.
"They (Sacco and Vanzetti) have been murdered with the aid of labor leaders with the electrical chair, the fascists who're inside the usa in addition to inside my us of a," he said.
He challenged trump to carry out the monetary coup along with his conceitedness but vowed to face up to him. "I do not like your oil, Trump. you will wipe out the human species due to greed. maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, in spite of my gastritis, we will talk frankly approximately this, but it's tough due to the fact you don't forget me an inferior race and i'm no longer, nor is any Colombian.
"So if you realize a person who's cussed, it truly is me, period. you may attempt to carry out a coup with your financial power and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. however i can die in my regulation, I resisted torture and that i face up to you. I don't need slavers subsequent to Colombia; we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I need subsequent to colombia are fanatics of freedom. if you can't accompany me, i'll pass elsewhere," he said.
Petro delivered that colombia is the heart of the sector and trump does not take into account that.
"you may kill me, however i will survive in my humans, which is before yours, in the Americas. we are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea, and of freedom. You do not like our freedom, okay. I do not shake arms with white slavers. I shake arms with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the united states, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after strolling the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being stored from Covid," he said.
He said that these are the genuine representatives of the united states and he kneels earlier than them and nobody else.
In his ultimate phrases, Petro redefined the center of the Americas. "Colombia now stops searching north," he declared. "We take a look at the world." He tied Colombia's bloodlines now not just to spain or Africa but to the Mediterranean, to the Caliphate of Córdoba, to democracy's Athenian roots. colombia, in Petro's view, became the product of countless civilizations that valued freedom-a spirit he believed trump ought to in no way recognize.
The final words were a rallying cry, each to his human beings and to humanity: "In colombia is the primary free territory of the usa, before Washington, of all america. There I take shelter, in its African songs."
"My land is made of goldsmiths who labored in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the primary artists in the world in Chiribiquete. you will by no means rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is known as BolÃvar, opposes us," Petro stated.
"Our human beings are fairly anxious, relatively timid; they're naive and sort, loving, however they'll recognize a way to win the panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. two hundred heroes from all of Latin the united states lie in Bocas del Toro, latest panama, formerly colombia, that you murdered," the Colombian President said.
"I enhance a flag and as Gaitán stated, although it stays by myself, it's going to stay raised with the Latin American dignity this is the honour of america, which your super-grandfather did no longer recognize, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the usa.
Your blockade does now not scare me, due to the fact colombia, besides being the u . s . a . of beauty, is the heart of the world. I understand which you love beauty as I do, do no longer disrespect it and you'll deliver it your sweetness.
FROM these days ON, colombia IS OPEN TO THE entire international, WITH OPEN arms, we're builders OF FREEDOM, life, AND HUMANITY.
i am knowledgeable that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human hard work to enter america, and that i do the same.
let our human beings plant corn that was discovered in colombia and feed the world," Petro stated.
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