Bogotá, Aug 27 (EFE).- Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday that “at least” his government is not dragging down “the human rights of the people” as is the case with his Nicaraguan counterpart, Daniel Ortega, who criticized him on Monday for supposedly defending U.S. interests in Latin America by not recognizing the results of the Venezuelan elections.
“Daniel Ortega (Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Petro) has called us ‘dragged’ just because we want a peaceful and democratic negotiated solution in Venezuela,” the Colombian president said on the social network X.
He then added: “To such an insult I allow myself to respond: At least I do not drag down the human rights of the people of my country and even less those of my comrades in arms and in the struggle against dictatorships.”
Ortega said in a virtual summit with heads of state of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) that he sees Petro “competing with Lula to see who will be the leader who will represent the Yankees in Latin America.”
“That’s how I see Petro, but poor Petro doesn’t have the strength that Brazil obviously has,” added the Sandinista leader, who criticized his colleagues for not recognizing the re-election of their ally, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in the controversial elections of July 28.
Lula and Petro insisted on Saturday on the need to publish the electoral records “broken down by voting table” after the Supreme Court of Venezuela endorsed Maduro’s victory, which they “took note of.”
“Both presidents remain convinced that the credibility of the electoral process can only be restored through the transparent publication of disaggregated and verifiable data,” according to a joint statement by the two countries.
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2024-08-29 01:49:07
