Petro: “I would not know if it is preferable to support the US or Russia. I think it’s the same”

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petrocompared this Tuesday, in his speech at the closing of the so-called Summit of the Peoples, which was hosted by the European Parliament in Brussels, to Russia and USA ensuring that they arethe same”.

“Actually, I couldn’t tell you if it is preferable to support the United States or Russia. It seems to me that it is the same. It seems to me that in the game of world politics we really don’t have social alternatives.”, alleged the leftist president.

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Petro made that statement after doing a comprehensive X-ray of the political situation in Latin Americacriticizing that on the continent there are “centrifugal forces that have not allowed a real integration project” and comparing somehow to Mexico and USA with Ukraine and Russia.

“Mexico more or less stands in for Ukraine, not in political terms, but in economic terms. Perhaps Ukraine would like to reproduce itself as Mexico has reproduced itself. There is no North American industrial piece, from a North American company, that does not go through production processes in Mexico”, said the Colombian president.

And he has chosen these comparisons before the European hemicycle, as he assured that the “core interest” Right now for the EU, which is foreign to Latin America, it is “the ukrainian war”.

“Somehow, to show the construction of a block in the world, Latin America and European Union, around (Volodymyr) Zelensky and the support of a political, economic and military strategy, obviously. that was his priority”, affirmed Petro, who pointed to a “right-wing that is not artificial” in the EU.

Faced with this comparison, in which he wanted to put Russia and the US as imperialist forces, he offered a “alternative to the current world economic system and regime”, in which the “capital has found a limit”.

“Capitalism has enormous vitality to overcome its own crises and has been building this world today, even a utopia of capital that was not described and analyzed since the 19th century.”, said Petro, who made a call, before leftist leaders, to find a way out.

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“We are probably approaching a vital and human explosion, diverse, because it will not be the same and homogeneous throughout the world”, predicted the Colombian, who opted for “give birth to these social, political and human explosions, and articulate them in such a way that it is life that overcomes capital, and not capital surpassing life, sinking itself”.

Petro joined the president of Bolivia, Luis Arceto the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Yvan Gil Pintoand to the European left at the end of the call Peoples Summitwhich was hosted by the European Parliament just after the summit of the European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) held this Monday and Tuesday in Brussels.

Source: Elcomercio

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