Lula da Silva and Gustavo Petro attacked Javier Milei at the UN

Lula da Silva and Gustavo Petro attacked Javier Milei at the UN

September 24, 2024 – 1:23 PM

At the 79th UN General Assembly, the leaders of Brazil and Colombia, without explicitly naming him, targeted Milei. The danger to democracy and life were two key points in their speeches.

The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petroand the president of Brazil, Lula da Silvaspoke this Tuesday at the 79th General Assembly of the United Nations, where both they pointed outwithout naming him, against the president Javier Milei, who will speak today at 4:30 pm, and the attack on democracy by totalitarianism.

“In his power of Prohibition and censorship shout: Long live freedom, damn it! But it is only the freedom of the richest 1% of the world’s population. Their mercantile and free feeling leads to destruction of the atmosphere and of life,” he emphasized. Petro at the beginning of his speech and stressed that “they are the ones who say what is thought, what is said and what should be prohibited and silenced.”

On the other hand, in the presentation of the President of Brazil, Lula He called for an urgent fight against the advance of climate change and made references to the danger of the “ultra-liberal experiments” in Latin America, referring to Bolsonaro, Milei and Elon Musk, after the recent problems in their country with the social network X.

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“In a globalised world, it makes no sense to resort to false patriots” or to “ultra-liberal experiments,” stressed Lula da Silva.

“In Brazil, defend democracy leads to acting against attacks extremists, messianic and totalitarian “those who spread hatred and resentment,” the Brazilian president said, adding that “democracy must respond to the legitimate aspirations of those who no longer accept hunger and inequality.”

“In a globalized world it makes no sense to resort to false patriotsto those who wish to isolate us, nor does it make sense to resort to ultra-liberal experiments “which only worsen the difficulties of an impoverished continent,” the president declared in the midst of a conflict against the tycoon Elon Muskafter his social network X was blocked by the Brazilian justice system.

On the other hand, Petro He continued along the same lines in his speech, emphasizing the defense of the democracythe wars and the alarm for the care of the environment: “11 million hectares of the Amazon rainforest have burned in just one month due to global warming.”

At the same time he ironically pointed out against Mileicontinued to criticize the power of the media owned by large capitals and that “the racists, supremacists“Those who stupidly believe that the Aryans are the superior race are preparing to dominate the world.”

Source: Ambito

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