[News] Colombia President Petro’s Letter to Trump

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Colombia President Petro’s Letter to Trump
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*We are running this dignified response to Trump from Colombian president
Gustavo Petro after he refused to allow 2 US military planes loaded with
Colombian nationals deported in shackles from landing in the Latin American
country. Trump in his anti immigrant crusade responded by threatening
Colombia with tariffs of 50% on all Colombian products coming into the US
if there wasn’t compliance. As of last night a tentative agreement has been
reached between the two countries and Petro has sent Colombian planes to
return them in a humane way. The corporate media is saying that Petro
backed down but if you read this you will see a defiance against this anti
immigrant revival of the Monroe Doctrine. How much indignity are the
countries of Latin America supposed to endure?* –editor

January 26, 2025

*“I don’t want slave drivers on Colombia’s side, we already had many and we
freed ourselves”*

“Trump, I don’t really like traveling to the US, it’s a bit boring, but I
confess that there are meritorious things, I like going to the black
neighborhoods of Washington, there I saw an entire fight once in the US
capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like
bullshit to me, because they should unite.

“I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and
Miller.

“I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, in the history of
the USA, are memorable and I follow them. They were assassinated for being
labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists that are inside the USA
as well as inside my country.

“I don’t like your oil, Trump, you’re going to end the human race through
greed. Maybe one day, over a drink of whisky which I accept, despite my
gastritis, we can talk about this frankly, but it’s difficult because you
consider me an inferior race and I am not, nor is any Colombian.

“So if you know anyone stubborn, it’s me, period. With your economic
strength and your arrogance you can try to stage a coup d’état like they
did with Allende. But I die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you.
I don’t want slavers alongside Colombia, we’ve had enough of them and we
freed ourselves. What I want alongside Colombia are lovers of freedom. If
you can’t be with me, I’ll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world
and you didn’t understand that. This is the land of yellow butterflies, of
the beauty of Remedios, but also of the Aureliano Buendía colonels, of whom
I am one, perhaps the last.

“You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which comes before
yours, in the Americas. We are the people of the winds, the mountains, the
Caribbean Sea and freedom.

“You don’t like our freedom, okay. I don’t shake hands with white slavers.
I shake the hands of the white libertarians who are the heirs of Lincoln
and of the black and white peasant boys of the USA, before whose graves I
have cried and prayed on a battlefield, wherever I may end up, after
climbing the mountains of the Italian Tuscan and after saving myself from
Covid.

“They are the USA and I kneel before them, before no one else.

“Kneel for me, Mr. President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.

“Colombia, now stop looking north, look at the world, our blood comes from
the blood of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the civilization at that time, of
the Latin Romans of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who
founded the republic, the democracy in Athens; our blood has the black
resisters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free
territory in America, before Washington, in all of America, there I take
refuge in its African songs.

“My land is of gold and silver work existing in the time of the Egyptian
pharaohs, and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.

“You will never dominate us. The warrior who rode through our lands,
shouting freedom and who is called Bolívar, is opposed.

“Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat shy, they are naive and kind,
loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from
us by violence. Two hundred heroes from all over Latin America lie in Bocas
del Toro, present-day Panama, formerly Colombia, whom you murdered.

“I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if I am alone, it will continue to
fly with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which
your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President immigrant
in the USA.

“Your blockade does not frighten me; because Colombia, as well as being the
country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty
as I do, do not disrespect it and it will give you its sweetness.

“COLOMBIA AS OF TODAY OPENS ITSELF TO THE WHOLE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE
ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.

“I have been informed that you are charging a 50% tariff on our fruits of
human labor to enter the US, I will do the same.

“May our people plant the corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the
world.”

Source: Cubadebate
<http://www.cubadebate.cu/especiales/2025/01/26/carta-de-petro-a-trump-en-x-no-quiero-esclavistas-al-lado-de-colombia-ya-tuvimos-muchos-y-nos-liberamos/>
translation Resumen Latinoamericano – English
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