“Petro’s action is in defense of peace, immigrants and sovereignty,” says leader

“Trump’s triumph intensifies contradictions inside and outside the US, as it was explained when it tried to expel the two million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, to intensify its genocide, asphyxify Canada, intervene in Mexico and Honduras, among other atrocities. Hence the importance of the Gustavo Petro government to raise in defense of peace, immigrants, sovereign development of our countries and all humanity. ”

The statement was made by the historic struggling for Human Rights and current advisor to the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture, Héctor Mondragón, in a conversation, late Thursday afternoon (6), in São Paulo, about the wave of misinformation that hang about the situation lived in your country.

Recalling that “there is no Colombian who does not have an immigrant relative,” Mondragón stressed that this phenomenon “is a priority issue for humanity”, in view of which we should “expand and strengthen popular mobilization, while integrating ours countries and peoples against fascism ”. “Just as Hitler said he would send to concentration camps the worst of Jews, now anyone can be the worst of the worst, with handcuffed immigrants from hand to his waist, being deported or sent to the arrest of Guantanamo. This was against that that President Petro countered, ”he said.

Faced with haughty postures like this, facing the national oligarchy and the transnational cartels, he pointed out Arridogón, “the Congress of Colombia – dominated by the interests of the country – wants to plunge the country in a fiscal crisis by not approving the republic’s budget for the first time for the first time to approve the budget ”. “On the grounds that ‘already pay tax’, parliamentarians on the right want to prevent royalties from oil companies and mining companies [como o carvão]. But Royalty is not imposed! Blocking this entry of resources aims to compromise the public budget on the eve of the elections, ”he said. “This is when the agricultural sector grew 10%, which only happened in China and Vietnam,” the minimum wage had a real increase of 4.5% – against 2.5% in Brazil – and the workday was reduced to 42 hours in 2026. Among other striking advances, he emphasized, “managed to modify the situation of the elderly and the poorest children, through the aid of pension reform and the family welfare institute.” “They are very striking and expressive achievements,” he reiterated.

Agrarian Reform Meeting in Chicoral

On February 21 and 22, in Chicoral (Colima), peasant, indigenous and African descent leaders, all agrarian reform committees and 20 agricultural associations will discuss with the Ministries of Agriculture, Culture and Environment the “Pact by Earth and life ”. The goal is to accelerate the land reform project, led by Petro, “boycotted by the large landowners and sectors that have been profiting from drug trafficking and illegal mining” and make 2025 the year of family, peasant, ethnic and community farming.

Regarding the dozens of murders that occurred in Catatumbo, “where we have 50,000 displaced people, people who needed to abandon their homes and their lands,” Mondragón denounced the practice of guerrilla groups who have had through their history bond with the national liberation struggle through their history. And who today play the far right and the United States, putting in crisis “the total peace, key to the historical pact, which implemented and developed it.”

Thus, instead of some guerrilla organizations surrender their weapons, “they adopted a practice exactly the same as paramilitaries”, “delivering a forceful argument, the speech of former President Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010), that the peace process failed ”. “We have to take a collective responsibility and Petro proves to be clearly committed to peace by ordering the army to take the direction of the area. Petro will not assault the civilian population, will not bombard the area, but to enter social and institutional programs, without allowing armed groups to control finances – from bribes to oil, because the area is rich in oil – from another guerrilla group ”, explained.

According to Héctor Mondragón, one of the central issues for advancing critical conscience and breaking with the enormous misinformation that hangs over the Colombian situation, is to “face the monopoly of the media, which are perfilled to the fascist Elon Musk, and aim to contradict them popular measures that have been adopted by the government. ” “They want to have control of Colombia to execute a diametrically opposed foreign policy to which has been applied, they want our territory to assault neighboring countries,” he added.

For jurist Pietro Alarcón, international representative of the Patriotic Union (UP) – member of the Historical Pact Coalition – integrated by organizations such as the Communist Party, the Human Colombia, the Democratic Polo, of forces that have turned off from traditional segments, such as the Liberal Party , and committed to ending the civil war – “since 2016, when the peace agreement has signed, there is a new stage of life in the country, where the word, dialogue and politics overlap with weapons.” An arduously built reconciliation project after the UP suffered the persecution of paramilitary groups and state terrorism, which caused a blood bath that left them between five and six murdered militants.

Organizer of the event, at Colombian Café, Pietro Alarcón stressed how the protagonism of the population has been exercised in the streets and channeled to the UP coalition, which for the first time made historical demands come to light, “respecting the right, sovereignty and the right Welfare of the population to overcome an oligarchy that wants war, violence and paramilitarianism. ” “We are here with Mondragón, adding to the project of President Gustavo Petro and Vice President Francia Márquez to affirm peace and consolidate a country in which happiness, joy, coexistence and life prevail,” he concluded.

Leonardo Wexell Severo