“You only have to look at some television images of Buenos Aires and several cities in the country (…) in Buenos Aires the elderly people go out into the streets just like here in Colombia in Bogotá, But there they are hitting them with gas, they are hitting them with clubs, they are dragging them through the streets”he declared at an event.
The presentation took place in a context where Petro defended his pension reform project, and at the same time the request to lower the retirement age in Colombia. Following this, he made a comparison with what recently happened between Milei and the retirees of Argentina.
This reform will be in force from July 2025, and they assured that it prioritizes “changing the mentality of working more than necessary throughout human life and focusing on how to enjoy old age.”
“They treat them like pariahs”: Petro strongly criticizes Milei
In this context, he added: “They are ordered by a government that does not deserve their protest, that they do not deserve their right and They treat them as if they were pariahs who deserve to go to the dungeons, that they are gagged. There is no freedom there that Mrs. (María) Cabal (Colombian senator) preaches.”
“They are the old men, the old women who a few years ago, a few decades ago, supported Argentina, pulled the levers of industry, stuck their backs in the furrow or simply looked after their youth so that amidst affection and kisses they could build that enormous and great nation as mothers, heads of families or housewives. Today they drag them, today they drag them, today they beat them with the force of a uniformed youth by order of a government I am not going to criticize here, it is not my place, he has given the order that old men and women in Argentina do not have freedom, they do not have rights,” he explained, differentiating himself from libertarian action.
“Well here we are in another, other different images. That difference has to be measured, felt, analyzed, if you want theorized, but shown because in Buenos Aires is the rope for the elderly and in Colombia we are giving a bowl of soup, a hug, affection, love from the government.hill.
Source: Ambito
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