Gustavo Petro, Presidential aspirant and leader of Human Colombia, had a telephone meeting this Thursday morning with the ex-aspirant in the White House Bernie Sanders. What were they talking about? To “observe that U.S. military and police assistance to Colombia is subject to strict compliance with human rights in the country,” the Colombian lawmaker reported.
PeterHe also said: “We talked about three issues” during the meeting.
“Encourage a Carter Center election mission with computer experts to audit the software of electoral calculation “, one of Petro’s concerns for next year’s elections.
“Tighten the ties between U.S. and Colombian progressivism,” he said.
The third is the one already mentioned: surveillance of aid in the military field in the country.
Petro spoke a couple of days ago with EL TEMPS about the election campaign that is beginning and stated that he does not consider himself a leftist, as the 21st century imposes other ideological views.
“It’s just that I no longer divide politics between left and right, as was done in the 20th century. At that time I was a young man of the left (…) Politics in the 21st century is crossed by another different concern (…). there are two major fields which are the politics of life and that of death “, stated Petro, who said that he defined himself” as the politics of life “.
Sanders he unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for president of the United States in 2016 and 2020. In both campaigns he finished second. Prior to his election to Congress, he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont, and is one of the most mediated symbols of politics in that country.
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