2023-04-19 11:31:59
07:01 AM
From United States President Gustavo Petro once once more called on citizens to take to the streets to demonstrate, according to him, to ask for social changes, while in Colombia their reformist projects are going through their most difficult moment in Congress.
The president made this call following participating in a conference held at Stanford University in which he spoke regarding economic growth in Latin America, and challenges for the region such as social inclusion and climate change.
After speaking regarding the challenges and opportunities of Latin American countries, Petro was consulted regarding the protests in Peru and they asked him how he would deal with the protests in Colombia since He went from being an opposition leader to Iván Duque to being the ruler of Colombians.
“If society Colombian takes to the streets once more, it will be because she wants morewant more transformations, more changes, I hope it happens, I would love it”, said the president, who on two previous occasions He had asked citizens to come out and demonstrate.
About, Petro also pointed out that “people are not brutes” and, according to him, they do not protest to seek the benefit of a single person, but the collective, for which he gave as an example the wave of protests that took place in countries like Chile, Colombia and France.
This strategy of summoning the streets has become a kind of ‘ace up the sleeve’ of the president, since in February he called the first mobilizations in support of his reforms and then gave a speech from a balcony of the Casa de Nariño to put pressure on Congress.
In addition to that first call, the head of state recently asked him to Colombians who go out to demonstrate on may 1st under the International Workers’ Day to support your labor reform proposal that is stalled on Capitol Hill.
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