Gustavo Petro

Gustavo Petro stated that the registrar had violated the law by allowing 97% of the E14 electoral forms, due to lacking a hash code, to be modified at any time and place. He described the situation as extreme electoral corruption and questioned whether the registrar should have resigned a long time ago or if he planned to hold local elections without that security mechanism. #Corrupción #Elecciones #Transparencia (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that humanity would stand by those who defended it and described Pope Leo XIV as a great defender of dignified life. He also affirmed that millions of people were manipulated in their emotions and reasoning through communications that used artificial intelligence, serving the most powerful men on the planet and the disputes of the great computer capital. In that context, he considered the presence of Pope Leo XIV and the efforts of Pope Francis I fundamental in the fight for life around the world. #Humanidad #VidaDigna #InteligenciaArtificial (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that an organizational chart showed that Abelardo had placed 16 members of his law firm in key positions that, he claimed, allowed for the return of assets to drug traffickers. He added that he would later show that many assets of drug traffickers removed from the OFAC list had been purchased by the National Land Agency (ANT) to be handed over to the peasantry, and that many were still in the process of extinction. #Narcotráfico #Corrupción #Justicia (translated)

Gustavo Petro said that he spoke with the Ecuadorian lawyer Washington Andrade and was surprised to hear the names of officials from Ecuador's judiciary who, he claimed, were seeking to promote international proceedings against him through lies and pressure on victims of persecution. https://t.co/X6ybPMbeZj #Ecuador #Justicia #DerechosHumanos (translated)

Gustavo Petro questioned the political leadership of Santa Marta and stated that there was already a financed and fully studied project, ready to begin construction, for a desalination plant intended for 500,000 people. He criticized Abelardo for proposing to bring water by ship from Cartagena. Petro maintained that Cartagena was still struggling to capture water from the Dique canal and bring it to its bay, possibly to the Sinú river, to first supply municipal aqueducts and irrigation areas. He also warned that, during a drought, the Magdalena river would dry up and Cartagena would not be able to send drinking water from that river to Santa Marta. #Política #Agua #SantaMarta (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that the anti-terrorism bill should be rejected immediately by the first commissions of Congress. He claimed that it went beyond the measures adopted by Franco and Pinochet and that it only lacked the inclusion of executions based on suspicion. According to Petro, the initiative would overturn the social rule of law, eliminate any trace of democracy, and would be directed against society, not against criminality. #LeyAntiterrorista #Democracia #DerechosHumanos (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that sanctioning magistrates and judges constituted an ignominy against humanity and asserted that Latin America should not allow it. He said that the OFAC list should disappear and be replaced by an effective global instrument against drug traffickers. He also called for the replacement of political lists that, according to him, promoted apartheid and segregation with guarantees for free thought and expression, and proposed to rebuild a broader and deeper international law on that basis. He added that international justice should investigate and judge international drug trafficking and pursue drug traffickers and their assets anywhere in the world. #Justicia #DerechosHumanos #Narcotráfico (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that the United States government had indicated that there were no criminal charges against him or evidence linking him to drug trafficking. He said he had been on a list for a year due to his speeches as president about Gaza and against Netanyahu, whom he labeled a genocidal. He described his inclusion as a political punishment that he could not accept and maintained that the opinions of a president before the United Nations Assembly and his related acts were protected by an international treaty and by U.S. law. #Política #DerechosHumanos #LibertadDeExpresión (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that the FBI had known about Epstein's pedophilia for two decades and argued that the witness mentioned in the linked material had been killed. He also pointed out that Epstein had financed Peter Thiel with 40 million dollars for projects such as Palantir, which, according to Petro, aimed to completely control every person. He added that this technology had served as intelligence provided to Netanyahu to bomb the city of Gaza. https://t.co/8Sm1PFsdbL #Epstein #FBI #Pederastia (translated)

Gustavo Petro wrote that he hoped to reunite with Piero "among the stars." He called him a friend, noted that they were both born on April 19, and described him as a singer of rebellions. He closed the message with the expression "Ad Astra." https://t.co/fnNI5BWpEl #Amistad #Estrellas #Música (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that removing ships from the OFAC list and adding magistrates, judges, human rights leaders, and presidents like him—whom he described as defenders of the rights of the Palestinian people to have a sovereign state and to demand a trial for genocide against Netanyahu—turned the list into an instrument of apartheid, rather than a tool against drug trafficking. He called it a "Nazi instrument" directed against those who, as he wrote, sought social justice and peace. #DerechosHumanos #JusticiaSocial #Paz (translated)

Gustavo Petro said he would file a complaint against Uribe Londoño, whom he called a slanderer. He stated that his hostility was due to the fact that he wanted to be appointed president of the ETB after voting for Petro for the Mayor's office of Bogotá, as he maintained. Petro added that he did not appoint him because he feared that, due to his background, he would steal from the company. #Denuncia #Calumnias #Bogotá (translated)

Gustavo Petro expressed his support for Roberto Sánchez, whom he described as the winner of the elections in Peru, and stated that the election had been stolen through votes cast in the United States. He argued that those votes were not counted and that the ballots, transported from the United States in suitcases and not in a diplomatic bag, gave Fujimori a 40,000-vote advantage. Petro said he had spoken by phone with Pedro Castillo and noted an increase in popular mobilization in Peru and a decline in Fujimori's image. He also claimed that Sánchez had a majority in the Chamber of Representatives of the Peruvian Congress and that his supporters were preparing to defend democracy and freedom. #Perú #Elecciones #Democracia (translated)

Gustavo Petro wrote that Abelardo would have to follow the path they had taken to investigate the murder of Miguel Uribe Turbay, a matter that, he said, had been an obsession for them. He added that Abelardo would encounter many surprises. #MiguelUribeTurbay #Abelardo #Colombia (translated)

Gustavo Petro criticized a senator's attitude towards Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo during a police promotion event to which, he said, the minister had been invited. He also stated that the senator had asked Jaramillo to leave the Senate chamber, despite Petro's belief that he should have been awarded the Cruz de Boyacá, a distinction he claimed to have granted him. Petro attributed improvements in citizens' perceptions of the Police to his government and said that 17,000 patrol officers had been promoted to subinspectors, that their salaries had been increased, and that officers linked to alias Pitufo had been removed from the institution. He added that Jaramillo had pushed for improvements in healthcare for police officers and their families and contributed to building the hospital in southern Bogotá. He claimed that Abelardo had returned the Police's medications to the Char clan. The president maintained that during his government, thefts and domestic violence had decreased and linked this reduction to lower poverty and hunger rates and an increase in the minimum vital wage. He also stated that improvement in economic conditions strengthened families. Petro asked when police and farmers had been seen uprooting coca crops on thousands of hectares planted during Iván Duque's government. He said that trust between the two groups was key to taking Colombia out of drug trafficking. Finally, he accused Abelardo of handing 16 key positions in different branches of the Government to people from his own office to facilitate the massive return of goods seized through asset forfeiture. Petro argued that this situation suggested the construction of a "mafia state" capable of unleashing another Colombian holocaust. #PolíticaColombiana #DerechosHumanos #Progreso (translated)