'I do not shake palms with white slavers': Colombian President Petro's slams trump in defiant speech amid tariff struggle
The united states and colombia clashed on sunday over the deportation of migrants and imposed tariffs on every different's goods in a display of what different international locations may want to face if they intrude in the trump management's crackdown on unlawful immigration.
The White residence held up the episode as a caution to different countries who might are trying to find to impede its plans.
but, the united states said that colombia has agreed to take flights carrying deported migrants from the united states after trump threatened steep price lists on imports and different sanctions on the longtime US partner.
Following this, Colombian President Gustavo Petro placed out an extended post on X describing trump as a "white slave owner" and announcing that he might not "shake fingers with him." In a passionate and defiant tweet, Colombian President Gustavo Petro added a scathing critique folks President donald trump, addressing a variety of historic grievances, political tensions, and issues of sovereignty.
"Trump, I do not absolutely like touring to the usa; it's a bit dull, but I confess that there are some commendable matters. i love going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, wherein I saw a whole combat within the US capital among blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me due to the fact they ought to join collectively."
He said that he likes artists and poets like Walt Whitman, Paul Simon, and Noam Chomsky, adding that Sacco and Vanzetti (Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti), who have his blood, are memorable within the records of america and he follows them.
"They (Sacco and Vanzetti) had been murdered through exertions leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are in the united states of america as well as inside my us of a," he stated.
He challenged trump to carry out the economic coup together with his arrogance but vowed to withstand him. "I do not like your oil, Trump. you will wipe out the human species due to greed. perhaps in the future, over a glass of whiskey, which I take delivery of, regardless of my gastritis, we can talk frankly approximately this, but it's tough due to the fact you keep in mind me an inferior race and i'm now not, neither is any Colombian.
"So if you recognize a person who's cussed, that's me, duration. you can try and perform a coup with your economic strength and your vanity, like they did with Allende. however i can die in my law, I resisted torture and that i face up to you. I don't need slavers next to Colombia; we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I need next to colombia are enthusiasts of freedom. if you can not accompany me, i will cross somewhere else," he said.
Petro delivered that colombia is the coronary heart of the sector and trump does not understand that.
"you will kill me, however i'm able to live to tell the tale in my human beings, which is earlier than yours, within the Americas. we're peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea, and of freedom. You don't like our freedom, ok. I do not shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of america, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after strolling the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid," he stated.
He said that those are the actual representatives of the usa and he kneels earlier than them and nobody else.
In his last words, Petro redefined the middle of the Americas. "Colombia now stops searching north," he declared. "We have a look at the world." He tied Colombia's bloodlines now not simply to spain or Africa however to the Mediterranean, to the Caliphate of Córdoba, to democracy's Athenian roots. colombia, in Petro's view, become the product of countless civilizations that valued freedom-a spirit he believed trump should by no means recognize.
The final phrases have been a rallying cry, both to his humans and to humanity: "In colombia is the first loose territory of the united states, before Washington, of all the united states. There I take safe haven, in its African songs."
"My land is made from goldsmiths who labored in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the primary artists within the international in Chiribiquete. you may in no way rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who's known as BolÃvar, opposes us," Petro said.
"Our people are fairly fearful, fairly timid; they may be naive and sort, loving, however they may understand the way to win the panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. two hundred heroes from all of Latin the usa lie in Bocas del Toro, present day panama, previously colombia, which you murdered," the Colombian President said.
"I boost a flag and as Gaitán stated, even if it remains by myself, it'll stay raised with the Latin American dignity this is the distinction of america, which your first-rate-grandfather did no longer recognize, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant within the america.
Your blockade does no longer scare me, due to the fact colombia, except being the united states of america of splendor, is the heart of the arena. I realize that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness.
FROM nowadays ON, colombia IS OPEN TO THE whole international, WITH OPEN arms, we are developers OF FREEDOM, life, AND HUMANITY.
i'm knowledgeable that you impose a 50% tariff at the end result of our human hard work to go into the usa, and that i do the same.
let our human beings plant corn that turned into located in colombia and feed the arena," Petro stated.
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