After learning of Gustavo Petro’s victory, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro strongly criticized him and assured that Colombians will begin to leave the country.
“Colombia has just elected a president of the M-19, similar to Dilma Rouseff,” he commented, referring to the former president of Brazil, who was also a member of guerrilla groups in her youth.
“What is the most requested public service in that country?” Bolsonaro asked some followers who surrounded him this Thursday at the door of his official residence in Brasilia.
“The passport sector,” he replied immediately. In this way, he insinuated that people would be thinking of leaving the territory and settling in other countries of the continent.
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‘It’s going to free all the young people’
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Bolsonaro also criticized the request that Petro made in his speech last Sunday at the Movistar Arena. The former mayor of Bogotá, without referring to the so-called ‘First Line’, sent a message to the attorney general, Francisco Barbosa.
“How many young people handcuffed, how many young people treated like bandits just because they had hope, just because they had love. I ask the Attorney General to free the youth, free the youth,” he exclaimed.
Barbosa himself denied Petro’s request and invited him to process projects in Congress to change the law. Although the issue was left there, Bolsonaro believes that this is an indication of what would happen in his mandate.
“He is going to free all the young people. Generally, those who are involved in drug trafficking are people of that age group, even minors,” she pointed out.
Also, He linked his criticism of Petro with those he maintains against other countries governed by left-wing leaders, as he associated them with former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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“In Venezuela they take three bags of money and go to buy bread. See how Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Colombia or Cuba are doing,” she said. He also pointed out that the leaders of those countries and Lula “are all from the Sao Paulo Forum,” which brings together Latin American leftist parties.
Finally, he wanted to make a call to his countrymen with a view to the elections next October in which Brazil will elect a new president. Bolsonaro is seeking re-election, but he will have to face Lula da Silva at the polls.
“We are responsible for our acts and omissions,” he declared, insisting that his country is “threatened” by a “return of communism,” which in his opinion is embodied by Lula and the progressive parties that support him.
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His recent pronouncements contrast with an official government statement that congratulated Petro on his arrival at the Casa de Nariño.
“By wishing the president-elect success in the performance of his duties, the Brazilian Government reaffirms its commitment to the continuity and deepening of bilateral relations with Colombia, with a view to the well-being, prosperity, democracy and freedom of our peoples” , they wrote in the Foreign Ministry note.
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