Gustavo Petro

Gustavo Petro stated that the attorney general of Bolivia had been illegally imprisoned and that the prosecutor in Ecuador who was investigating the same matter had been murdered. According to Petro, the investigation focused on an alleged intervention by the United States government to manipulate millions of Latin American voters and commit electoral fraud through algorithms from companies linked to Netanyahu. (translated)

Gustavo Petro asserted that the E14 reports delivered by the private scrutiny company of the Bautista brothers showed, according to statistical evidence, that the results at the polling stations were not random. He stated that this evidence indicated a very high probability of fraud in the presidential elections and requested that justice examine the original data, which, he said, could be modified over time at the Registraduría. Petro also claimed that the fraud had occurred in the first round and that the so-called streaks, or Wald-Wolfowitz model, affected the votes of Abelardo, Iván Cepeda, and Paloma Valencia. (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that Bolivia had become a dictatorship and accused its authorities of detaining the Attorney General and his replacement to prevent an investigation. According to Petro, this inquiry aimed to clarify alleged links between disinformation campaigns during Latin American elections and the U.S. State Department and the White House. He also accused the Bolivian president and his circle of persecuting former president Luis Arce and indigenous leader Evo Morales, repressing protests, and violating the Constitution. He attributed ties to drug trafficking and fascism to the president and claimed that he had attempted to kill his pregnant girlfriend. Furthermore, he asserted that a network of fake profiles, allegedly funded by Jeffrey Epstein and Netanyahu, promoted presidents he described as subservient and sought to harm economies and facilitate the appropriation of natural resources. Petro urged U.S. President Donald Trump to open a dialogue between the United States and Latin America based on democracy and freedom and warned that the imposition strategy he attributed to Marco Rubio could lead to violence. He also called on Latin American progressive movements to defend Lula in Portuguese against what he described as bot farms, and summoned activists and former members of artificial intelligence companies to develop digital tools against disinformation and fear. (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that a Wald-Wolfowitz statistical analysis, or streak analysis, reviewed by peers, indicated with 95% confidence that the results of thousands of consecutive tables within polling places were not random. He argued that, in light of these indications of fraud in the presidential election, the justice system could order a comparison of the physical votes with the E14 forms and clarify the identities of the voters and jurors recorded on them. He also requested to review practically the entire voting process abroad, table by table, both regarding the jurors and the identification of the voters. (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that his government had protected shoe manufacturing and reduced tariffs on leather and fabrics, considering that employment and higher added value were in manufacturing and not in raw materials. He also claimed that shoe sales had fallen due to layoffs, attacks on wages, and high financial costs, and asked how many entrepreneurs had voted for Abelardo. (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) should continue as long as the armed conflict persisted, which he attributed to mercantile reasons. He also requested that it regain the powers outlined in the peace agreement to investigate third parties involved and act as the highest tribunal on the truth of the conflict. Petro mentioned that the peace process between the State and the FARC was conceived to be fulfilled in 12 years, but it suffered paralysis during the administrations of Duque and Abelardo. He claimed that it had only been executed for one year during Santos' government and four during his own. He added that by 2028, three million hectares would not be delivered to farmers and that the SAE showed willingness to return goods to drug traffickers. The president pointed out that the JEP had lost functions granted by the agreement, including examining the relationship between drug trafficking and the conflict. He asserted that the failure to comply with the agreement strengthened coca leaf cultivation and armed groups in the service of drug trafficking during Duque's government, and maintained that the JEP could address the crimes outlined in the Rome Statute in this new phase of the conflict. He also stated that the submission of drug traffickers and their armed groups to the JEP would help Colombia move away from drug trafficking. (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that there was no money for the victims of the earthquake and that the resources from the presidential family's foundation had disappeared. He also claimed that 15 billion had been withdrawn from the fund that, he said, he had established through a contract to build the airport in Palestina, Caldas, whose start report had already been signed. (translated)

Gustavo Petro wrote that Jorge had fought for his country and stated that a chart showed how Abelardo had harmed in a single month the efforts of his Government to achieve the lowest unemployment rate of the century. He also maintained that while he was developing capitalism and distributing wealth among the population, Abelardo was destroying it by belonging to Colombia's narco-financial elites. (translated)

Gustavo Petro defended the right to protest and stated that it should not be limited when the mobilizations were directed against the wealthy. He affirmed that this right belonged to the masses and the people as a constituent power, and said that the protests gathered millions of people, not hundreds. Regarding truck drivers, he pointed out that the protest referred to the labor rights of drivers—including eight-hour workdays, benefits, insurance, and pensions—and not just to the transit of goods. He also said that small truckers should be protected and accused large companies of money laundering of preventing the arrival of the electric train. Petro maintained that the mobilized people could command the public force in exercise of their constituent power and that no established institution was above this. Furthermore, he claimed that there was fraud in the past presidential, legislative, and local elections, attributing a 95% statistical probability to experts. He said that justice must compare the E14 forms with the votes deposited in the bags by table and verify the identities of jurors and voters. Finally, he urged the people to reclaim what he described as their sword and to save Colombia's democratic institutions. (translated)

Who is Diana Patricia Bravo, a member of De la Espriella's legal team who is part of the defense of Alex Saab, just like Abelardo de la Espriella, the head of the team? Today they ask that his financial and tax gaps not be politically exploited. But how can Alex Saab's defender in the U.S. return Alex Saab's assets under the presidency of the republic, which is the Head of State? If the legal team led by Abelardo de la Espriella worked in the defense of criminals and drug traffickers in the U.S., how can one of these lawyers head the entity where precisely all the seized assets of their defendants are, and they want them to be returned, as publicly stated by Mr. Juan Fernando Alvarez Meyerndoff, trying to use me as a bargaining chip to recover their assets worth 700 million dollars? I gave a clear directive in my government: the assets of the mafia go, if they are rural, to the peasantry, and if they are suburban and urban, to public universities and cooperatives for victims of violence. They talk about not politicizing, but how can it be explained that Diana Patricia Bravo, as a prosecutor in Barranquilla, a prosecutor's office dominated by Char, raids three venues of the Historical Pact in the second round looking for money with which we were accused of vote-buying from a foreign government, and any Colombian knows perfectly well who buys votes in Barranquilla. (translated)

Without any court order, they detain the attorney general of Bolivia in this manner, and Marco Rubio decides to support this action when the attorney was investigating a Nazi owner of thousands of bot farms aimed at manipulating the consciousness of millions of people in Latin America. Under this manipulation, several president allied with drug trafficking have been elected. This is not a democracy but a coup against democracy that affects not only Bolivia but humanity and the truth as a quest for civilization. That is why it is time for the expression of judges and the peoples of all of Latin America and the world to stop the arbitrariness and barbarism that spreads across the world. The forces of democracy throughout America, including the U.S., must elevate this debate in their congresses and media. (translated)

My stupid recipe, Doctor Restrepo, achieved the highest employment rate, the lowest rates of hunger and poverty of the 21st century, and some of the highest levels of per capita income in the last quarter of my government in the entire history of Colombia. You and Abelardo today, just as you did in Duque's government during the first month of his administration, shot up unemployment almost to the double-digit figures that you handed over to my government. That's called a step back! It's unfortunate that a part of the Colombian electorate believes that Colombia's destiny is to go backward. Again the IMF, again over-indebtedness that you promoted, Dr. Restrepo, by giving subsidies to the rich and imposing a gasoline subsidy paid with the budget. These days, that is called economic ignorance and anachronism. I propose my support from the opposition to make a great agreement for the equitable progress of Colombia. What allowed us to have the best social economic figures of the century was: 1. Leaving hydrocarbon extraction and moving to real production in industry, commerce, and tourism. Prioritizing production, that is, the transformation of materials to make other materials for a good life for people, automatically raises employment levels and overall productivity. 2. Raising the minimum wage every year to the level of the vital basket for a family. This was demanded by the social doctrine of the Catholic Church in the encyclical "Rerum Novarum" by Leo XIII, and you, as a fervent Catholic, should apply it. In that encyclical and in that of Francis I about the "common home," and in that of Leo XIV about "a dignified Humanity," you would find a comprehensive agreement with the progressivism I lead. 3. A leading role of the state in the economy in strategic matters such as tariffs for industrialization, abundant and cheap credit for small and medium-sized industries, cheap credit for industry, food production, exports, and zero-interest credit for any national industry that produces an increase in Colombia’s computational capacity, energy, and railroads. 4. Leading the decarbonization of the economy through a 100% clean electricity generation matrix, replacing the prohibitively expensive gas with extremely cheap and abundant solar energy in Colombia. Remember that in my government I managed to increase growth in the four years by 500% in the naval industry and 200% in the electric automotive industry. 5. Redistributing another million hectares among farmers and doubling food production in the country to lower the prices of the family basket and increase real wages. You and we can lower the interest rate set by the Board of the Bank of the Republic by configuring another majority in the board that is friendly to production and work. 5. And if you don’t want, Mr. Restrepo, to reach agreements given the mind-numbing sectarianism that predominates, then just remember my advice: work and nature are the sources of wealth, and in Colombia, the real wage as an expression of the value of work allows the expansion of the internal market, both formal and informal, and increases the number of companies and workforce. When the country decides to return to legitimate institutions, it might be too late for you, but these will be the economic bases already experienced with positive data for a national agreement. (translated)

The so-called "Petro blackout" is a profound act of intellectual dishonesty by the current leaders of the energy unions, as demonstrated here. In ten years, aside from the disaster of Hidroituango, they did nothing in electric generation but allowed the electricity rates to be raised speculatively. It is my government that is increasing electric generation by several gigawatts, mostly in clean and solar energy. For a drought, the best and cheapest energy is solar, whose projects were suspended in this government. (translated)

The stupid thing is to think that the economic theory of degrowth is for poor countries. The economic theory of degrowth is for rich countries and starts with luxury consumption and consumption of goods based on hydrocarbons. If developed countries do not reduce their poisonous consumptions for life, what is extinguishing is human life, including life in Colombia. In Colombia, what is spectacularly decreasing, and only in the first month of Abelardo, is employment. (translated)

This is a crime against humanity and its recording must be taken to the International Criminal Court. To pursue a civilian population group with a political identity as was done with the Patriotic Union is a crime against humanity as defined in the Rome Statute, which is the law of the Republic. The constitution of Colombia guarantees free thought and no one should be persecuted for their political ideas. The persecution unleashed by Abelardo to cover up his corruption and inefficiency has already claimed several lives and generates political hatred. A commission of experts in International Humanitarian Law should be organized to present the first volume of the complaint already filed by myself, as president, against Abelardo de la Espriella. (translated)

The commercial confidence index has practically collapsed between my government in its last month and the current first month of Abelardo. The more employment falls, the less will be bought and the more business incomes will fall. From 27.5% to 23.3%. (translated)