:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/67K3HLRD2JFYDPQAQBMZC2H5PI.jpeg "The Peruvian Congress declared Colombian President Gustavo Petro persona non grata")
On the afternoon of Friday 17 February, the Congress of Peru indicated as ungrateful person Al Colombian President Gustavo Petroby “offensive” statements he made against National Police of Peru (PNP).
Gustavo Petro came out on the balcony of the Casa de Nariño to defend his government’s controversial reforms
In the midst of several taunts and heated questions to various sectors of the press and to “the two biggest bankers in Colombia”, the President of the Republic spoke about the transformations he intends to bring to the pension, health and work
The decision, which received 72 votes for, 29 against and 7 abstentions from the plenary session, was taken after statements by the Colombian president on Friday, February 10, about the deployment that the PNP carried out in the historic center of Lima the day before. , in response to a demonstration against the Peruvian government.
“In Peru, they walk like nazisagainst his own people, violating the American Convention on Human Rights,” were Petro’s words referring to the deployment of the Peruvian National Police.
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In the text, the Peruvian parliament pointed out that the first Colombian president not only “insulted” to the Peruvian police but also to the country and to the whole jewish town Al “trivialize the holocaust”.
“Motion 5607 has been approved, which proposes to express its rejection of the statements of the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, which constitute an offense against our National Police of Peru, and to declare it persona non grataamong others, ”reported the Peruvian legislator through his social networks.
With the motion approved by the Congress of Peru, they were also asked tos Ministries of Interior and External Relations take the necessary measures so that the Colombian head of state “does not enter the national territory”.
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It should be mentioned that President Petro is not the only politician to have been declared “persona non grata” by the Peruvian government. On previous occasions, others like the Mexican ambassador in Lima, Pablo Monroyand the former Bolivian President Evo Moraleswas given the same denotation by “for his constant incitement to national politics” who, according to the Peruvian parliament, were seeking “unbalance the internal order of the country”.
The day before the Peruvian congress declared Colombian President Gustavo Petro persona non grata, the Peruvian daily Trade writes a severe editorial on the declarations of the Colombian head of state in which he compares the Nazism the political situation in Peru.
“A sentence that suggests that the restoration of order by the state, legitimately led by President Dina Boluarte, constitutes an outrage similar to those perpetrated by the troops of dictator Adolf Hitler in Germany in the first half of the 20th century” , he wrote. .the Peruvian newspaper.
Immediately after, the newspaper adds: “Is it perhaps ‘Nazi’ to exercise the authority that the Constitution confers on the government in the face of groups of vandals who block, destroy and burn public and private property?” keep asking “What would it have been democratic? That they destroy police stations, airports, shops and offices of the prosecution or justice? Of course not.”
The editor of Trade continued with an account of the times when the first Colombian president made reference to the politics of Peru, to conclude the article described as “A collection, in short, of bullshit which have strained relations between Colombia and Peru, but, above all, they reveal the extremes to which the international accomplices of the attack on the Constitution he tested are capable of Pedro Castillo in order to advance the file of their political and ideological interests on the continent”.
So far, President Gustavo Petro has not ruled on the decision of the Peruvian Congress. However, it should be remembered that, already in the previous days, some Colombian opposition politicians had come out in favor of the Peruvian parliament. One of them was Miguel Polo Polowho wrote on his Twitter account: “Here are the consequences of appointing a crazed guerrilla to the presidency. Shame on the world!”