Colombian President Slams Trump: You and Your Friends Are Liars!
Gustavo Petro condemns U.S. and Western complicity in Gaza genocide, warns that the same brutality could reach the Global South
Colombia, PUREWILAYAH.COM - Colombian President Gustavo Petro launched a fierce attack on U.S. President Donald Trump, warning that what is happening in Gaza could also unfold across the Global South.
Petro declared that “democracy has died in the world, and barbarism now prevails,” delivering sharp criticism of Western policies and the global capitalist system, which he described as one that “prioritizes profit over human life.”
In a lengthy speech, the Colombian leader noted that his country had never received a single free weapon from NATO, saying:
“It was a lie that they were helping us. Not one free weapon ever reached this country. We only buy NATO weapons.”
Trump, You Liar — The People You Kill Are Not Drug Traffickers
In a direct assault on Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, Petro said:
“Trump, you liar, you and your friends, and you too, Rubio — the people you are killing are not drug traffickers. The real traffickers went to your offices in Miami to ask you to bomb this place and to remove the democratically elected president in an attempt to humiliate us.”
Petro also said that the recent UN General Assembly meeting revealed the isolation of both Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after a majority of NATO member states voted in favor of Palestine under pressure from their own populations — a moment he described as “historic and insufficiently analyzed.”
The Genocide in Gaza Will Reach the Global South
The Colombian president further condemned what he called “the complicity of Western governments in the genocide in Gaza,” asserting that the attack on the Freedom Flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea “sparked public outrage” as people realized that their governments were “complicit in genocide.”
Petro warned that:
“This is not just about Gaza. What we see in Gaza will happen across the Global South — in the continents of working and poor peoples, in places where we have no global power. They are showing us their brutality and how they intend to act in the future.” (PW)