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@melis @GottaLaff

1/5 thread

Petro is very active on social media and knows how to dunk on people. His national corporate media actively lies to diminish him but he remains popular.

So his silence on the concessions the US made I believe is intentional so that Trump can bray for domestic audiences, because Petro already got what he wanted:
1) humane treatment for the deported
2) an opportunity to expand Latin American solidarity & unity for Petro's global progressive & anti-colonial agenda

@alienghic @GottaLaff @_L1vY_

I'm looking at reactions in Spanish and English on both sides, and it looks like, in exchange for guarantees from the US not to place Colombian citizens in chains and to guarantee their safe physical treatment, #Colombia will continue as it has for years in accepting deportations, including it seems, for the first time, via military transport.

@alienghic @GottaLaff @_L1vY_ Petro’s statement this morning: #Colombia 1/2

A migrant is not a criminal and must be treated with the dignity that a human being deserves.

That is why I turned back the US military planes that were carrying Colombian migrants.

I cannot make the migrants stay in a country that does not want them; but if that country turns them back it must be with dignity and respect for them and for our country.

@alienghic @GottaLaff @_L1vY_

2/2

“We will receive our fellow citizens on civilian planes, without treating them like criminals. Colombia is respected.”

#Colombia

@GottaLaff @alienghic @_L1vY_
This BBC article is rewriting the US press release. It omits that #Colombia obtained agreement from the US to ensure that deported citizens are transported safely, not in chains, with respect for their bodies, dignity and human rights. This was President Petro's core demand.

Western media is at this point consistently framing the agreement as a unilateral concession by #Colombia and that is false.

@kcarruthers Statement by President Gustavo Petro (thread, 2/?)

"They were murdered by the fascists within the U.S., just as they exist in my own country, executed in the electric chair for being labor leaders. I don’t like your oil, Trump. It’s going to destroy humanity out of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey—which I’ll accept despite my gastritis—we can speak frankly about this. But it’s difficult because you consider me an inferior race, and I am not, nor is any Colombian. "

@kcarruthers It's a bit of a clumsy translation. If I may, allow me to offer a better one in the form of a thread to follow here. . .

@kcarruthers OOPS:

#colombia Statement by President Gustavo Petro (thread, 1a/?)

(1a, some text I omitted accidentally between thread items 1 and 2):

" I confess I admire Walt Whitman, Paul Simon, Noam Chomsky, and Miller. I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who share my blood, are memorable figures in U.S. history, and I follow their legacy. "

That part makes thread part #2 make more sense. SORRY!

@kcarruthers #colombia Statement by President Gustavo Petro (thread, 1/?)

"Trump, I don’t really like traveling to the U.S. much; it’s a bit boring, but I admit there are some commendable things. I enjoy visiting the Black neighborhoods in Washington. There, I witnessed an entire battle in the U.S. capital between Black and Latino communities, with barricades and all, which I thought was nonsense because they should unite instead. . . ."

@kcarruthers This story as written is deceptive and omits key facts.

#Colombia DID NOT reject repatriation of its citizens. It rejected the landing of military planes and the handling of its citizens in chains as criminals. The norm for repatriation is to deliver people unbound in civilian planes. Colombia upheld its duty to protect the dignity and bodies of its citizens, consistent with international treaties, which the US was violating.

English media is routinely distorting the facts.

#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."

#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"

#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."

@GottaLaff @_L1vY_ The Colombian government states it has received guarantees of dignified transport and handling of its citizens, one of President Petro’s conditions. It is not clear if Colombia compromised to accept delivery via military planes. #colombia

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