President Petro: The US devised sanctions and they became a boomerang

Published at: 29/10/2024 09:19 PM

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, criticized the United States for tightening its immigration policies while imposing sanctions on countries such as Venezuela.

“They devised the blockade and now they are victims of that invention,” he said during his speech at the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (COP16), which is being held in Cali, with the presence of the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), António Guterres.

Petro questioned the effectiveness of the economic blockade and pointed out that “it is not a boomerang that throws itself against a people to kill it and then returns just like that.”

“The United States was the one who devised the blockade of Venezuela” and now faces the consequences of its own action, reported the HispanTV website.

He highlighted discrimination against immigrants from Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia and other Latin American countries in the United States. Without naming names, he referred to racist comments that emerged at a rally held by former President Donald Trump last weekend.

“They are only welcome if they are willing to forcibly work 18 hours, but when it comes to rights, they are not good and should be expelled,” he emphasized.

He also insisted on the need to establish a new world order and considered that some of the causes of inequality, migration and poverty lie in the exploitation of a few towards the majority.

On several occasions, Petro has denounced the United States for its interventionist policy towards Latin America, its destabilizing role in Western Asia and other regions of the world, and has spoken out about the need for a new world order.

He has also condemned the Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip in multiple international settings.

In addition, international media indicate that in his opening speech at the aforementioned event, Petro reiterated the same points he had already made at the start of COP16 on October 21.

In this regard, he criticized the productive sectors of the economy that have influenced the climate crisis and the indebtedness of developing countries, which has become an obstacle to taking actions to curb the loss of global biodiversity.

Petro said that this COP16 is an effort to reconcile with nature, because “we still live on our knees behind coal and oil.”

He also indicated that greed is leading the way on what to do with the climate crisis and the death of biodiversity, “which is nothing more than the death of humanity. Greed against life.”

He assured that the world cannot remain obsessed with the fact that the financial system will solve the problems of climate and biodiversity. “We're making mistakes and we're running out of time,” he said.

The Colombian president rejected the actions of developed countries because, as he specified, they emit 1,500 times more pollution than emerging nations, they burn the oil they extract from those countries and use the money from that benefit to debt the same countries from which they extracted the resources.

Mazo News Team