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   Pachacutec (pachacutec@union.place)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 16:30:04 JST Pachacutec

   #colombia Statement by President Gustavo Petro (thread, 4/?)

   "Colombia is the heart of the world, and you’ve failed to understand that. This is the land of yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of Colonel Aureliano Buendía, and I am one of them, perhaps the last. You may kill me, but I will survive in my people, who existed long before yours, in the Americas. We are people of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea, and freedom."

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     Pachacutec (pachacutec@union.place)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 16:30:08 JST Pachacutec

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     #colombia Statement by President Gustavo Petro (thread, 5/?)

     "You don’t like our freedom, fine. I won’t shake hands with white enslavers. I will shake hands with white libertarians, heirs of Lincoln, and with the Black and white farm boys of the U.S., at whose graves I wept and prayed on a battlefield I reached after walking through the mountains of Tuscany and surviving COVID. They are the U.S., and before them, I kneel—before no one else"

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     #colombia Statement by President Gustavo Petro (thread, 6/?)

     "Bring me down, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia no longer looks to the north; it looks to the world. Our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the civilization of its time, from the Latin Romans of the Mediterranean, the civilization that founded the republic and democracy in Athens. Our blood carries the resilience of Black people enslaved by you."