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“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.”
— Gustavo Petro
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#free gaza#free palestine#gaza strip#irish solidarity with palestine#palestine#gaza#news on gaza#al jazeera#boycott israel#israel#Colombia#Gustavo Petro
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Colombia, Bolivia back Brazil’s Lula in Israel row over Gaza war comments
South American allies voice ‘solidarity’ with Brazil after Israel lambasts Lula for comparing war on Gaza with Holocaust.
Colombia and Bolivia are backing Brazil as its diplomatic row with Israel escalated after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, comparing its actions with the Holocaust.
Gustavo Petro and Luis Arce, the presidents of Colombia and Bolivia respectively, both expressed “solidarity” with Lula on Tuesday, after he was slammed by Israel for calling its war on Gaza a “genocide” against Palestinians and compared it with Adolf Hitler’s campaign to exterminate the Jewish people during the Holocaust.
“In Gaza there is a genocide and thousands of children, women and elderly civilians are cowardly murdered,” Petro said on X. “Lula has only spoken the truth and the truth is defended or barbarism will annihilate us. The entire region must unite to immediately end the violence in Palestine.”
Arce also took to social media to link arms with Lula. “History will not forgive those who are indifferent to this barbarity,” he wrote. The Brazilian president, he said, had told the truth about the genocide being committed against the “brave Palestinian people”.
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Gustavo Petro is courageously correct
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Guys do you remember the Colombian protests and the #soscolombia?
Well...it was worth it because today we did this:
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro, Honduran President Xiomara Castro and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at the CELAC summit in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines today, 1 March 2024
#Gustavo Petro#Colombia#Xiomara Castro#Honduras#Nicolas Maduro#Venezuela#Saint Vincent and the Grenadines#CELAC
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Gustavo Petro — wins the Colombian election, becoming the country’s first leftist president and Francia Márquez — a former housekeeper and activist — is Colombia’s first Black vice president.
This is so important for us, they bring us hope for our beautiful country💛💙❤️.
POR EL VIVIR SABROSO Y HASTA QUE LA DIGNIDAD SE NOS HAGA COSTUMBRE🇨🇴
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By Jake Johnson
Common Dreams
Aug. 9, 2023
"To avoid the point of no return," argued Colombian President Gustavo Petro, "we need an ambitious transnational policy to phase out fossil fuels."
The leaders of eight Amazon nations closed out a two-day summit in Brazil on Wednesday without reaching a shared agreement to end deforestation by 2030, a failure that stemmed in part from disputes over oil extraction in the critical ecosystem.
Colombia, represented by leftist President Gustavo Petro, pushed for an end to oil development in the Amazon, whose status as a key carbon sink has suffered severe damage in recent years due to the deliberate clearing of trees, corporate exploitation, and runaway planetary warming.
"Are we going to let hydrocarbons be explored in the Amazon rainforest? To deliver them as exploration blocks? Is there wealth there or is there the death of humanity?" Petro asked in a speech last month. Colombia is home to roughly 10% of the Amazon.
Colombia's fellow Amazon nations rejected Petro's call.
A joint declaration issued by Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela states that the South American countries agree "urgent action" is needed to "avoid the point of no return in the Amazon" and combat deforestation, which has surged in recent years.
But the declaration stops short of a cooperative pledge to end deforestation entirely by 2030 and contains no mention of fossil fuels. Individual nations, including Brazil and Colombia, have pledged to take their own steps to end deforestation by decade's end.
Colombia this week also became the first country to back an Indigenous-led call to protect at least 80% of the Amazon by 2025.
"Indigenous territories and Indigenous rights are a critical tool for the long-term protection of Amazonia," said Alicia Guzman, Amazon program co-director at Stand.earth. "As Colombia and other countries move forward to protect the Amazon, protecting current and establishing new Indigenous Territories will be an essential element of protecting 80% of the Amazon by 2025. Amazonia for Life: Protect 80% by 2025 centers the importance of Indigenous Territories, and also encourages national-level debt forgiveness, local economic development, and an end to extractivism."
Environmental groups voiced outrage that Amazon countries were unable to agree to cooperate on ending deforestation by 2030.
"Temperature records are broken every day," said Márcio Astrini of the Climate Observatory. "It's not possible that under those circumstances, the eight presidents of the Amazon nations can't include a line in the declaration stating, in bold letters, that deforestation needs to be zero, that it won't be tolerated anymore."
"To avoid the point of no return, we need an ambitious transnational policy to phase out fossil fuels."
Reuters reported Wednesday that "tensions emerged in the lead-up to the summit around diverging positions on deforestation and oil development."
"Bolivia and Venezuela are the only Amazon countries not to sign onto a 2021 agreement among more than 100 countries to work toward halting deforestation by 2030," the outlet noted. "A Brazilian government source told Reuters in the lead-up to the summit that Bolivia, where forest destruction is surging, is a hold-out on the issue."
Reuters added that "Brazil is weighing whether to develop a potentially huge offshore oil find near the mouth of the Amazon River and the country's northern coast, which is dominated by rainforest."
Petro has implored Lula—who has overseen a sharp decline in deforestation—to rule out the fossil fuel project, which would be led by Brazilian oil giant Petrobras.
In an op-ed for the Miami Herald last month, Petro warned that "even if we get deforestation under control, the Amazon faces dire threats if global heating continues to climb. To avoid the point of no return, we need an ambitious transnational policy to phase out fossil fuels."
Researchers have estimated that one in nine tanks of gas, diesel, or jet fuel pumped in the U.S. state of California comes from the Amazon.
"To avoid the point of no return," Petro argued, "we need an ambitious transnational policy to phase out fossil fuels."
To that end, Petro called on "Amazon countries and our partners in the 'Global North' to commit to phasing out fossil fuel development, and to do so in a way that protects our right to a just transition to a post-carbon world."
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Francia Márquez, an environmental activist from the mountainous department of Cauca in southwestern Colombia, has become a national phenomenon, mobilizing decades of voter frustration, and becoming the country’s first Black vice president on Sunday, as the running mate to Gustavo Petro.
The Petro-Márquez ticket won Sunday’s runoff election, according to preliminary results. Mr. Petro, a former rebel and longtime legislator, will become the country’s first leftist president.
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#free gaza#free palestine#gaza strip#irish solidarity with palestine#palestine#gaza#news on gaza#al jazeera#boycott israel#israel#Colombia#Gustavo Petro#luis inacio lula da silva#Brazil
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Este presidente y vicepresidenta si me representan. Celebralo mi Colombia 💛💙❤️
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Petro has vowed to, among other things, universalize free public education; provide universal free public childcare; create a jobs guarantee that recognizes environmental and reproductive labor; shore up universal public pension financing and improve benefits; protect water and water protectors; bring high-speed internet connectivity and digital literacy programming to rural areas and poor neighborhoods; tax speculative and latifundista landholding; employ state purchasing power, price-setting, and import tariffs to stimulate food sovereignty and value-added industry; improve credit access through public banking; and incorporate co-ops of garbage and waste pickers into a technified waste management system. Márquez, who has been ridiculed by triggered media personalities and a racist C-list pop star for her use of gender-inclusive Spanish, is slated to head a “transversal” Ministry of Equality, tasked with ending discriminatory violence and applying differential attention to age, capacity, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity across this entire suite of reforms.
Concerted efforts have been made to reassure national business associations and foreign creditors that the future being imagined here is closer to old-fashioned capitalist takeoff than a leap into the void of Twenty-First Century Socialism. Which may very well be the case. Regardless, the Colombian right is not necessarily wrong to understand Petro’s commitment to fully implementing the 2016 peace agreement with the Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) as a straightforward declaration of class war; if agrarian reform were acceptable to the landed interest, the FARC wouldn’t have taken up arms in the first place. There is similarly no way to frame the core component of the Petro-Márquez project—a moratorium on fossil fuel exploration and transition away from dependence on their extraction—that doesn’t imply a total overhaul of Colombia’s political economy.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and First Lady Rosangela 'Janja' da Silva meeting Colombian President Gustavo Petro and First Lady Veronica Alcocer in Bogota, Colombia
They also attended a business forum and Bogota Book Fair 📖📚📔📕📙📗📘
#Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva#Lula da Silva#Lula#Rosangela da Silva#Janja da Silva#Rosangela 'Janja' da Silva#Brazil#Brasil#Gustavo Petro#Veronica Alcocer#Colombia
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Not my video, but she’s amazing at explaining why Francia Marquez is such a huge deal, better than I could ever hope to do it myself. Please consider following Carolina (the woman on the video) on her different social media platforms, she’s absolutely amazing.
#video post#tiktok#colombia#politics#francia marquez#gustavo petro#day 3 of celebrations#francia is a badass and I absolutely love her#not the best giving shesa politician#but first and foremost she represents us#black woman#feminist#antiracism#activism#k now bye
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