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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)

Gustavo Petro stated that some airlines intended to apply the U.S. OFAC law in Colombia due to his ties with Colombian individuals. He asserted that this legislation did not apply in Colombian territory and that for it to do so, the country would need to change its Constitution through a Constituent Assembly. Petro said that OFAC had stopped focusing on drug traffickers and that, according to him, people opposed to the genocide in Gaza were included on its lists. He claimed that he was sanctioned for his speech before the UN and for asking for the formation of a United Nations army to defend Gaza, which would include the Colombian battalion deployed in Sinai to protect Palestinian children. He also accused the DEA of spending a year searching for and fabricating evidence regarding alleged links of his with drug trafficking. He said that drug traffickers whom he himself extradited, and who he claimed wanted to kill him, were the ones who believed those accusations. He maintained that Colombian drug trafficking had political influence, but that it was not found in progressivism, which, according to him, the narcos had pursued and attacked. Petro accused drug trafficking of supporting extreme right-wing ideas and stated that Colombian drug traffickers had access to the White House while poor farmers and people transporting small amounts of drugs through the Caribbean were being pursued. He added that drug traffickers with judicial agreements in the United States were moving shipments in submarines and had fleets of planes, and asserted that cocaine traveled in containers from companies of presidents who met with Donald Trump. Finally, Petro claimed that alias Fito contradicted journalist Vicky by saying he did not know him and that, instead, he was a friend and partner of the person who accused him. #Colombia #DerechosHumanos #JusticiaSocial (translated)

Gustavo Petro criticized the Council of State for revoking the minimum vital salary and stated that the decision, which he attributed to a magistrate or the full chamber, would reduce internal consumption and could lead Colombia to an economic crisis and violence. He accused the court of acting like an office of the Casa de Nariño and asserted that the measure jeopardized the middle class and could cause widespread poverty and bankruptcies. Petro said that the increase in the minimum wage during his government had reduced poverty and contributed to decreasing thefts, domestic violence, and extortion. He also claimed that the decision disregarded the 1991 Constitution and linked the Council of State with Abelardo, whom he described as a tyrant. The president called on workers from different sectors to mobilize and asked millions of people to take to the streets to demand a vital salary, promote a general strike, and support the people's constituent power. He accused his opponents of declaring war on workers and ended with a call for a free Colombia. https://t.co/EMvqmYeWO2 #SalarioMínimo #Colombia #DerechosLaborales (translated)

Gustavo Petro defended the pension reform and denied that his government had bought support to approve it. He said that the House of Representatives backed it widely and that the then President of the Senate, Iván Name, delayed the debate for eight months so that it would fail due to lack of time. He also accused Magistrate Ibáñez of keeping it frozen for two years in the Constitutional Court, although he pointed out that the reform had already passed that stage. According to Petro, millions of elderly people, many of them from the right, could receive a pension thanks to the law. Regarding the allegations related to the UNGRD, Petro asked the Pacto Histórico bench to commission a forensic audit of the entire existence of the entity, since 2010, and to publish the names of those whom he claimed had embezzled it. He stated that only one person from the Pacto Histórico appeared on the extensive list, whom he said he had removed from the administration and whom, according to him, the party expelled. He also argued that justice should investigate whether Name had received public money through his romantic or political environment. Petro claimed that, during the first month of his government, resources were recovered that he attributed to Olmedo's group and that then the UNGRD was sidelined in the assistance to people trapped after an earthquake in the west of the country. Citing a journalistic investigation by Nueva Prensa, he stated that a private coordination center had been set up in the house of Gregory Schaller, whom he identified as Abelardo's compadre. He linked Andrés Depew, Negre — whom he described as a partner of Fernando Cerimedo — and people who, according to him, had ties to Donald Trump and businessman Dan Newlin to that place. Petro stated that Newlin had illegally lent his plane and resources during Abelardo's campaign. In the same publication, Petro mentioned businessman Yadid Jalaff, whom he said was accused of stealing Colombian-Venezuelan Monómeros, and Jorge Alberto Campillo Vélez, whom he described as one of Pablo Escobar's first pilots. He also pointed out pilot Luis Almeira Quiroz and linked him to a flight of paramilitaries from Urabá to San José del Guaviare, which, according to Petro, allowed the Mapiripán massacre, in which 50 farmers were murdered. He asked how much money had been raised to address the earthquake and if that explained why, according to him, the full operation of the UNGRD had been prevented and international aid and volunteers had been rejected. https://t.co/eiJJnl3Lxu #ReformaPensional #Justicia #Corrupción (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that those who had ruled Latin America for two centuries presented the replacement of brief periods of progressive and humanist governments as a change. He claimed that this stance reflected a contradiction of Donald Trump and that his allies in the region did not understand it. Petro said that Latin America was the most unequal region in the world and attributed inequality to drug trafficking, migration, and violence. He argued that reducing it was the remedy and that, in Latin American history, only progressive governments had achieved it, citing the Government of Life in Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Bolivia, Correa's Ecuador, and Uruguay. He also stated that Trump had accepted the proposal of Marco Rubio and had prioritized an agenda against progressivism over the fight against drug trafficking. He added that progressive ideas had been present since the birth of all American republics, including the United States. Petro warned that Trump's policies would increase social and economic inequality, drug trafficking, violence, and migration to the north. He also asserted that, for Latin American peoples whose elections, according to him, had been falsified by the direct interference of a foreign government, rebellion was the only recourse left. #AméricaLatina #Desigualdad #Progresismo (translated)

My stupid recipe, Doctor Restrepo, achieved the highest employment rate, the lowest rates of hunger and poverty of the 21st century, and some of the highest levels of per capita income in the last quarter of my government in the entire history of Colombia. You and Abelardo today, just as you did in Duque's government during the first month of his administration, shot up unemployment almost to the double-digit figures that you handed over to my government. That's called a step back! It's unfortunate that a part of the Colombian electorate believes that Colombia's destiny is to go backward. Again the IMF, again over-indebtedness that you promoted, Dr. Restrepo, by giving subsidies to the rich and imposing a gasoline subsidy paid with the budget. These days, that is called economic ignorance and anachronism. I propose my support from the opposition to make a great agreement for the equitable progress of Colombia. What allowed us to have the best social economic figures of the century was: 1. Leaving hydrocarbon extraction and moving to real production in industry, commerce, and tourism. Prioritizing production, that is, the transformation of materials to make other materials for a good life for people, automatically raises employment levels and overall productivity. 2. Raising the minimum wage every year to the level of the vital basket for a family. This was demanded by the social doctrine of the Catholic Church in the encyclical "Rerum Novarum" by Leo XIII, and you, as a fervent Catholic, should apply it. In that encyclical and in that of Francis I about the "common home," and in that of Leo XIV about "a dignified Humanity," you would find a comprehensive agreement with the progressivism I lead. 3. A leading role of the state in the economy in strategic matters such as tariffs for industrialization, abundant and cheap credit for small and medium-sized industries, cheap credit for industry, food production, exports, and zero-interest credit for any national industry that produces an increase in Colombia’s computational capacity, energy, and railroads. 4. Leading the decarbonization of the economy through a 100% clean electricity generation matrix, replacing the prohibitively expensive gas with extremely cheap and abundant solar energy in Colombia. Remember that in my government I managed to increase growth in the four years by 500% in the naval industry and 200% in the electric automotive industry. 5. Redistributing another million hectares among farmers and doubling food production in the country to lower the prices of the family basket and increase real wages. You and we can lower the interest rate set by the Board of the Bank of the Republic by configuring another majority in the board that is friendly to production and work. 5. And if you don’t want, Mr. Restrepo, to reach agreements given the mind-numbing sectarianism that predominates, then just remember my advice: work and nature are the sources of wealth, and in Colombia, the real wage as an expression of the value of work allows the expansion of the internal market, both formal and informal, and increases the number of companies and workforce. When the country decides to return to legitimate institutions, it might be too late for you, but these will be the economic bases already experienced with positive data for a national agreement. #EconomíaColombiana #Progreso #DesarrolloSostenible (translated)

Esta es la dirección del Pacto Histórico provisional Se convoca la elección popular de delegados para la configuración democrática del Movimiento Pacto Histórico La votación será abierta, cualquier persona puede participar y votar en cualquier lugar del país, en las mesas electorales, cualquier persona se puede afiliar al movimiento, siempre que esté de acuerdo en el programa progresista del movimiento y la lucha por la democracia y la justicia social en Colombia u la Justicia Social. Se crearán equipos especiales para la investigación del fraude electoral y se exigirá que el candado Hash que impide la modificacion de un documento PDF, como ordena la ley, sea reincorporado a los formularios E14 como ordena la ley y el tratado internacional firmado por Colombia para impedir el fraude en elecciones locales. Se creará el equipo de defensa jurídica porque los perseguidos por el gobierno en su consigna de "destripar el progresismo" por ser un crimen de lesa humanidad incluído los extranjeros que ayudan en este camino e implica sanción penal nacional e internacional. Se creará un espacio comunicacional, que sea capaz de enfrentar el efecto de las granjas de bots que apoyan a Abelardo creando una matrix de falsedad y manipulación sobre la conciencia ciudadana. #PactoHistórico #JusticiaSocial #DemocraciaColombiana

"una alianza que tiene que ser democrática, que es de época, y vamos todos y todas y compartimos agendas globales (...) Nosotros, más todas las fuerzas progresistas europeas, más las norteamericanas, más las africanas... O compartimos un programa de mínimos común o no vamos a ganar" #Progresismo #ZohranMamdani #AsambleaONU

Zohran Mamdani, el joven alcalde de Nueva York y figura destacada del progresismo internacional, ha capturado la atención de líderes mundiales, incluyendo a Donald Trump, gracias a su carisma y enfoque en políticas públicas efectivas que abordan las preocupaciones de una generación agobiada por problemas sociales y económicos. #Progresismo #ZohranMamdani #AsambleaONU

A la directora del colegio de Formosa que le exige a los niños que le agradezcan al dictador Insfrán por un vaso de leche la quiero presa. En Formosa la política partidaria se metió en el aula No veo a los peronistas ni kirchneristas decir algo. Tampoco a la izquierda ni al falso progresismo. Se metieron con los chicos. El gobierno nacional debería analizar intervenir de una vez Formosa. Formosa es Argentina. #Formosa #Argentina #Política

quienes desde posiciones progresistas intentan con sus programas contrarrestar como pueden tanto mensaje de odio, se ven obligados a soportar por ello un acoso despiadado, la invasión en sus vidas privadas y todo tipo de amenazas." @juanjtortosa https://t.co/rQdkvxeiyG #Progresismo #LibertadDeExpresión #Respeto #Nospecificcountrycodescanbeextractedfromthetweetprovided.

Es inaceptable la persecución contra @petrogustavo. ¿No tiene entonces alguien que ocupó la jefatura de Estado el derecho a alquilar una casa en Bogotá? Ese relato de odio de la ultraderecha tiene un propósito evidente: castigar al progresismo en su conjunto por atreverse a “profanar” su templo. No es sólo contra Petro, es contra cualquiera que se atreva a proponer un modelo alternativo para Colombia. #Colombia #Progresismo #DerechosHumanos

Llego a Ostende, al festival del progresimo europeo, dejaré mi mensaje en el lugar cercano a donde el ejército de los EEUU dispuesto a derrotar el fascismo llegó, ojalá el pueblo de los EEUU vuelva a esta posición que es del alma y de la historia. https://t.co/dUVd8S9LbD #Progresismo #Historia #Paz

Gabriel, desconocer a Petro como el líder del Pacto Histórico no tiene sentido. Ahora, hay progresismo más allá del petrismo, como el que yo y muchos otros representamos. Y no vamos a caer en la manipulación de la derecha de mantenernos en cizañas y divisiones para que el proyecto autoritario y mafiosongo que defienden y eligieron reine eternamente, desaparezca los derechos y destripe al progresismo. Enmendar errores y reconciliar al progresismo para enfrentar a la derecha mafiosonga y corrupta ha sido mi coherencia toda la vida. No voy, ni vamos, a caer en las trampas de la derecha, su gobierno y sus bodegas. #Progresismo #PolíticaColombiana #PactoHistórico