The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petrospoke this afternoon at 78va. United Nations General Assembly and pointed out against the pressures from the global north on Latin America on issues such as climate changethe “drug war“and the demand to help Ukraine.
“We saw deepen what the rich in Davos called the polycrisis“The war continues, hunger continues and the climate crisis has shown its teeth, taking thousands of lives and warming the seas like never before,” he said. Petroafter remembering that Last year Colombia was included in the list of “terrorist countries, because it had helped peace” in his country.
The president’s speech was a strong criticism of the “neoliberalism that consumes the planet” and “leaves people in poverty and starvation of the Latin American population“, forcing her to move north, “not in search of wealth, but in search of liquid water”.
“Humanity has lost and has advanced without hesitation towards extinction“, he advanced. In that sense he stressed that “a fluid of tones and clothing and cultures that amalgamate in a great march from the south to the north, is the exodus of humanity that has begun, today there are tens of millions, in 2070 they will have reached 3,000 million fleeing their beloved places.” Petro explained that the growth of the exodus “speaks of the defeat of humanity“.
Climate crisis: one of the axes of Petro’s speech
In line with the concern about climate change and the decisions of the main powers in the world, he expressed: “In my country, In 2070 there will only be desertsthe people will go north, not for wealth, but for water, the towns will go where there is liquid waternorthward”.
Likewise, he highlighted that “The climate crisis is the mother of all crises“and regretted far from achieving human development goals of the United Nations by 2030.
He criticized the “rich countries not to invest in the climate crisisbut to have money for their wars, to repress coca leaf and cannabis farmers.”
“We are not thinking about how to expand life in the stars, but how to end it on our planet“he insisted.
“They forgot that our countries were invaded several times,” he noted about the war in Ukraine
In the same tone, Petro referred to the war in ukrainesupported economically and militarily by the United States, the European Union and NATO member countries, and criticized the call for Latin American countries to “provide help” to kyiv.
“They have called us to war and They forgot that our countries were invaded several times, the same ones who today talk to us about fighting against invaders“, he recalled and pointed out that “they forgot that the same reasons that are expressed to defend (Volodimir) Zelensky are the same reasons with which Palestine should be defended“. In that sense he remarked: “It is time to end both wars: Ukraine and Palestine.”
In addition, requested that the United Nations sponsor two international peace conferences “as soon as possible”one about the conflict in Ukraine and another about crisis between Palestinians and Israelis“because they would teach how to make peace on the planet, would end the hypocrisy as a political practice and would invite us to be sincere”.
Petro urged countries to “end war to defend life“, as well as to “end the debt and reform the international financial system, the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and multilateral banking.”
“The goal of life and justice is achieved by paths of global democracy and the revaluation of the public. I want to my grandchildren and children can live away from the Apocalypse and the times of extinction,” concluded the Colombian president.
Source: Ambito
