He president of Colombia, Gustavo Petrodeclared that he was involved in a strong discussion with the Argentine president Javier Milei during the G20 summit, held in Brazil. However, the Colombian assured that the videos of the tense crossing were not published by decision of the libertarian government.
“Joint work. This was the issue with which I fought (sic) with Milei verbally at the meeting of the largest and most powerful of the G20 that does not appear anywhere on world television communication, nor in Colombia,” Petro detailed last Thursday during an official event. .
The strong intersection of Gustavo Petro and Javier Milei at the G20
Milei debuted at the G20 summit for the first time since his inauguration in December 2023. The Argentine president arrived with disagreements with the rest of the world leaders, after being the only representative of the group not to have signed a preliminary declaration in defense of gender policies and the empowerment of women.
Despite this, during the summit the libertarian leader met with Kristalina Georgieva and Xi Jinpingamong others. In addition, it also joined the proposal to join the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty – promoted by the president of Brazil Lula Da Silva -. although the accession of Argentina It was carried out under specific conditions that reflect the policies of your Government.
In this context, the Colombian president assured that during the development of the summit he and Milei maintained a strong exchange and stated that the Argentine delegation did not want to share the record of what happened. “I published my intervention and it has to do with this economic and political precept that humanity only advances by helping itself,” he said.
“The Argentine delegation, to which they delivered the videos of their intervention, He hid it, he did not publish it. They didn’t like something about what happened there.“, critical
Regarding the ideas that Milei defended at the summit, Petro was blunt: “It is not disruptive. It’s a speech anachronistic think that the progress of the human being starts from a competition of individuals that like isolated atoms try to trip up the other in order to progress.”
“Then they kill each other among the nations believing that this is progress. Humanity has never been able to remain on the planet from killing herselfbut from helping herself,” added the Colombian.
The criticism of the Colombian president did not stop there: Petro also accused the Argentine president of representing a “new fascism“. On this topic, he added: “The extreme right, call them. I call them fascism of a new typethey are fascisms of a new type. Italian or German or Spanish fascism of the mid-20th century It was not a free trader, it was not a free market, it was a protectionist.”,
“Milei is free marketis the speech they always make; Trump is a protectionistthen there is a diversity in terms which means that you cannot match because history is not the same, in time, circumstances that happened in the middle of the 20th century to those of today,” Petro compared.
“But if there is something that equates, fascism was also defined by the violent elimination of difference and that is where the common point is with today, today many want to eliminate the difference and they want to eliminate the difference because it scares them, the Nazis also came to power,” he concluded.
It should be remembered that this is not the first episode of tension experienced between both leaders, located at ideological opposites. In March, the Colombian government ordered the expulsion of diplomats from the Argentine Embassy in Bogotáin response to the Milei’s repeated offenses against Petro, whom he called a “terrorist murderer.”
Javier Milei was not in the final photo of the G20: the official explanation
At the end of the summit held in Brazil, the G20 leaders ended the day by taking the typical closing photo. However, Milei, who repeatedly criticized multilateralism, It was not part of the final photo of heads of state.
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Presidency
The Government explained that Milei’s absence in the final image was due to the fact that “was in a bilateral“However, the leaders with whom the President met during the day were present in the official photo.
The President led meetings with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, with the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgievaand with the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi. Of all of them, only Milei was absent from the final G20 photo.
Source: Ambito
