Petro Turned On The Nets In The Time Before Sheinbaum’s Inauguration: “M-19 Produced Two Latin American Presidents”
On the eve of the inauguration of Claudia Sheinbaum as the first female president in the history of Mexico, for the next six years, Colombian President Gustavo Petro was in charge of fueling the ceremony with a controversial statement that unleashed a wave of strong reactions. in social networks. The leftist leader had no problem linking the politics of the Moreno party, the same party of outgoing ruler Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to the M-19 guerrillas.
At the end of a meeting with the president, who will hand over office in a lavish ceremony with a striking postcard — with a mural by artist Diego Rivera in the background — Petro mentioned Sheinbaum’s rise to power. And as reaffirmed at the conference Climate debt: Colombia’s proposal, the forces of life, saving the planet, Before signing the peace, the state connected the elected head of state with the organization of which he was a part.
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“Tomorrow (Tuesday, October 1) the government will be replaced by the ruler the people wanted. Claudia is, was, a member of M-19. This means that for those who do not want two cups, M-19 has now produced two presidents in Latin America,” said Petro, who tried to slip past journalists waiting for him to leave the National Palace after the controversial sentence. . Although later, at the mentioned conference, held at the Autonomous University, he repeated it without hesitation.
In fact, during a meeting with students from the Higher Education Center, Petro told about his participation in the April 19th Movementwhich was created after the unsuccessful presidential elections in 1990, and detailed how the new ruler of the North American country supported some of her “comrades” with a shelter, without overlooking that the writer Gabriel García Márquez himself, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, had to go to exile in Mexico.
“For the Colombians who know the story and the Mexicans who read it, I was part of an armed insurgent movement. I was imprisoned and tortured for it. And it was until the last second, which is the April 19 movement,” the president recalled in his speech, when the flag of the partisan, who surrendered his weapons in 1990 and already legally helped in the construction, appeared from the stands. political constitution of 1991.
According to Peter, the generation that was part of his organizational scheme died in armed struggle and was distinguished by its genius. “I have yet to find so many great people gathered in one unit. Young people, boys and girls, who decided to challenge the Colombian oligarchy and present a project that was not only linked to the classism of the left, but also sought to innovate and create. And they did not think that a president could emerge from its members.eh,” he added.
That’s when he got involved in politics again Brunette to this partisan. “But yes, (M-19) had a president. And now he has two. Because Claudia was an M-19 collaborator and activist in Mexico. In his early youth, because it was a long time ago, many Colombians ended up in Mexico because it always provided shelter and shelter to the persecuted. García Márquez lived here, his house is here. And many M-19 leaders settled here, they were persecuted,” he said.
He recalled exactly how they received help from Manito country to face armed and ideological confrontation. “And Claudia among them. So for those who don’t like that history, M-19 produced two presidents in Latin America” he said at the end of his lengthy intervention, in which he defended his thesis about the strong impact of climate change, although at intervals he fired barbs at the office of the Attorney General and Mayor of Bogotá, Carlos Fernando Galán.
