Colombian. Pay close attention because President Gustavo Petro went to Abelardo’s house and his family’s home in Córdoba to deliver 50,000 hectares of land from the agrarian reform, which is a very big step forward for the department, even though the governor of the department, a big Urista, is always complaining that nothing reaches Córdoba, but this government has sent many things and has defended the department.
That’s why the president arrived there and they were handing over the 50,000 hectares and he began to give a speech that I think will go down in history. But in addition to that, in that speech the president really makes Abelardo de la Espriella look bad, sorry, I forgot to mention that, and he tells the department and the country that they can’t bring the paramilitaries back to us, he says.
He talks about the sentence against Álvaro Uribe’s brother and basically humiliates Belardo because it turns out that Iván Cepeda won in Córdoba with 55.55% of the votes. The people of Abelardo and José Manuel Restrepo suffered a tremendous defeat in Córdoba, because Iván CPED Quilque, well, they got almost 400,000 votes.
In other words, people know what these characters are. In fact, according to La Silla Vacía, Abelardo’s father has at some point tried to obtain the endorsement of the Democratic Center to be a candidate for governor of Córdoba, and they have a long political career there , among others, in that department. And that’s precisely why Iván Cepeda got almost 400,000 votes, because people know him.
However, Abelardo was born in Bogotá, but he lived practically all his childhood in Córdoba and then he also lived in Bogotá , Bogotá, Barranquilla and then he went to Miami and then he lived in Italy and we already know the whole story, right?, of a character who doesn’t even live in Colombia and doesn’t care about this country.
But that’s how power and the lust for power work, and there are also many things there that probably have to do with the United States, things that SAAP has to answer to the United States, among others. We’ll see how things turn out in the coming months or years. Then, in his speech, the president completely demolished all these people and sent a very important message to the country.
Let’s listen to him and to the entire community that is with us today. Well, I came to say goodbye in my homeland, and I hope that when this government is remembered there at night, in the wings, in the rocking chairs, in the corridors, when the moon rises, when the sun sets, there will be a good memory of what we did.
It is felt that Colombia can definitely change, that it was not impossible, and that we did everything possible to ensure that the Colombian people did not revert to the past. The great social achievements that have been reached in these 4 years, extremely powerful in their figures, in their forcefulness, in the heart of the world, where the most socially unequal country in America is located.
We have planted an irreversible flag of social justice and equality, a cry that can no longer be silenced because it does not simply come from the voice of the throat, but comes from the heart and the firm decision of a people who cannot allow the conquests they have already achieved in these 4 years to be swept away.
a living wage that they now want to exchange for miserable hourly contracts . Slave owners, I repeat, how can you even think of convincing a people after having conquered, fought, mobilized, and even won in the Constitutional Court? The great order that the Constitution gave is that the minimum wage in Colombia has to be a mobile, vital and family wage.
In other words, what each worker earns in a month should be minimally sufficient for him and his family to acquire the necessary food and the minimum necessities to live with dignity anywhere in Colombia. And faced with such a great achievement, faced with an accomplishment that has made the national economy, agricultural, industrial, services, and its exports grow, being able to increase the food in the refrigerator of each family, being able to fill the kitchen shelves of any home in Colombia with food, more than
before, much more. This is what has already boosted the national economy to 3% and we will see it grow to 4%. Even though they raised the interest rate trying to stop us, they couldn’t stop us because of the statistics and data on social justice, the decrease in poverty, the decrease in hunger, the drop in child malnutrition, and the mortality rates of children that have plummeted when before they were dying in droves, from La Guajira to Córdoba and even Leticia.
Now far fewer children die from hunger, malnutrition, or poor water quality. And that is an immense achievement in life. We fought for life, for nothing else. Not our lives, which we know are increasingly at risk because the forces of reaction have conquered a part of Colombian society, and I don’t understand why I can’t understand a worker who votes for his executioner and is being offered hourly contracts.
when we had already obtained the contract with job security. I don’t understand a woman who votes for someone who attacks her at her core. Everyone in the department of Córdoba where I was born knows what I’m talking about. That’s very strange. Who did they strike at their very core? Which woman was beaten in her home? The entire department of Córdoba knows what I ‘m talking about.
I ca n’t speculate, but everyone will draw their own conclusions from Petro’s words. And you can see how furious he is, because it’s incomprehensible that people vote for their own executioner and for the one who seeks to destroy their rights. We know what we’re talking about here. That’s why I wanted to come here to say goodbye and see you soon.
Whatever the decision of the people of Colombia, I hope they consult their minds and their hearts and do not bring back the paramilitaries who murdered so many peasants in Colombia. It is sad that the country, with its own popular vote, brings to power those who wielded electric saws and dismembered, buried in mass graves, and took the humble people of Colombia to crematorium ovens .
It’s a sad state of affairs for that country if it even considers bringing in defenders of genocide with the money of genocide perpetrators from around the world, those who launch missiles, those who murder tens of thousands of babies in Palestine. Sad is the people he placed in the Nariño Palace after having filled it with yellow butterflies and people, people and people.
Not of oligarchs or landowners, not of butchers and genocidal maniacs. It is sad for the people to return to the presidential chair the defender of paramilitarism who crucified 200,000 human lives in Colombia. Sad for that town, if it happens, knowing that they have decreed my assassination, not only political and moral, but also the oblivion of what we did.
the great revolution of life in Colombia, but they are determining the physical assassination of the current president of Colombia, because they cannot stand that he fills the squares, because they cannot stand my word, because I base my word on a power that they do not have, they seek to kill him. The power of truth, the power to be free and say things as I think, the power to make words summon multitudes, we have already demonstrated this in the world .
How do we stop the missiles and the millions of dollars that are flooding Colombia today? to buy the people’s vote, to betray the revolution for life and to bring the specters of death closer again, as demonstrated by the condemnation of a criminal against humanity, brother of a governor in southern Córdoba, brother of a president criminal against humanity for killing 700 humble peasants from the lands of Antioquia in Santa Rosa de Osos, Yomal camp, including two minor girls, whose parents were militants of the Patriotic Union in the
camp massacre. Now we want to return them to power. I ask the people of Colombia, do we want to bring the specters of death and injustice to the Casa de Nariño to govern Colombia in the midst of a darkness, an ignorance for which we still have no name in the history of Colombia? We can’t. If they win, I will be in the streets risking my life again with my people, once again defending social justice, the people’s democracy, the power of the people, the hard-won gains that a single day’s vote will erase in one fell swoop,
as if we didn’t care about working women, peasants, as if we didn’t care about young people entering universities for free that didn’t exist before, as if we didn’t care that we can now talk about the dignity of women and the dignity of work in labor relations. a worker from a working class who no longer has to kneel as if he were a flock of slaves without rights.
We’re talking about rights, not threats or lies. Here, a tiger would kill all the animals in the region, and humans too. But here we know the story, and that’s why I wanted to come here to my town so that we can speak to the country, not just to Córdoba, about the true story behind this popular decision that is about to be made to define the destiny of Colombia.
I did n’t come here for a catwalk or to have a fleeting, subtle, forgetful, and forgotten 4-year wedding. He comes here so that we can change history with the people. I came here to not return to a time for which we have nothing to be grateful for except the death of so many brothers and sisters unjustly buried in the mass graves that fill the lands of the department of Córdoba.
Those dead who cry out to us from where they are, like the beautiful poem by Miguel Hernández, a Spanish republican, who died in prison for his ideas of freedom alongside his comrades, soul comrades, comrade, he said, workers defending a purpose, without anyone to pay them a single peso, simply because it was absolutely essential to raise the flags of humanity at a time when Hitler was growing and bombing Spanish lands like Garnica.
Today we are in the same situation in the world. Today we are experiencing a similar situation again. And Córdoba can teach all of humanity what the decision that the Colombian people are going to make at the polls is all about. Free. No, Mr. Donald Trump. I shook his hand and looked him in the eyes in front of the portrait of Abraham Lincoln next to a rose garden that hid the snow. Designed and very well designed.
And I told him, you’re a very good designer, Donald. But the only deal—and I’m not talking about business, but about a deal, a pact, and he understood it that way—between the peoples of Latin America and the societies of the United States of America, is a pact between equals, one and it is a pact about life and liberty and nothing else.
And it seems they forgot the proposal because they want to impose whoever they want on us. A young man from Miami who doesn’t know Colombia, but was raised and born here in these lands, in Sagón, Córdoba. And this government did defeat, 2 to 1, in its own land, the one who intends to return power to the murderous paramilitaries to govern the whole of Córdoba and Colombia.
What happened here in the story? So, Colombia can observe it here in this beautiful corner on the banks of the Cirú River with an ancestral indigenous culture that allows us to resist because we have ancestors from millennia ago, goldsmiths of gold when the Egyptians were building their pyramids and there was already a civilization here.
I do not believe in what we should not be ashamed of, and of which this hat is heir to the ancestral SENU culture. And that is why we proudly carry on , we cannot forget, what happened in these lands? The cronies of the guy from Miami, landowners in this territory, all a bunch of nobodies who didn’t know how to make the land produce, so they brought in some fat cows and got used to treating women like they were cows.
And so they held their beauty pageantry. They were given the same decorations as the champion casualties. And to whom did they give their beautiful daughters? The unproductive, ignorant landowners of Córdoba, the paramilitary commanders who murdered the people of Córdoba, and who at night believed they were sleeping with beautiful women and thus conquering and subjugating a people like the people of Córdoba, plunging them into terror.
Massacre after massacre. The cow worshippers and beauty queens were not leading a country, a department, towns that danced at night under the stars to having to lock themselves in their houses because the men in black were coming with rifles and chainsaws, killing everywhere, leaving the peasants’ homes, which I had to see, completely burned, with the bloody bodies of men and women lying on the sidewalks and in the streets, and the entire population fleeing and abandoning what would become a ghost town, abandoning
their lands, their beloved places en masse. Because the dark iron fist of the specters of death wanted that land for the cronies of the one from Miami. About what we’re talking about in Colombia, I came and denounced the Miami friends for their incestuous relationships with paramilitary drug trafficking.
And I have to say that I don’t understand Donald Tr or Mr. Rubio. They need to be defined. Either we are going to fight drug trafficking, or you are going to bring drug trafficking to the White House to make laws about the people of Latin America with the same drug traffickers. And I don’t accept it.
They can put me on the FA list 10,000 times. And if they want to arrest me, let them try, but I will not lower my voice, because here, before they want to arrest me , they will want to assassinate me too if the specters of death win again and govern from the house of Narillo. The mandate of the United States Constitution, founded on the 13 colonies whose flag speaks of respect for human diversity and respect for human diversity.
That is the founding totem principle of humanity in the Americas: absolute respect for human diversity throughout the American continent. I do n’t understand those Colombians. It seems that it was fraud, that they then vote for those who kneel in Miami and allow Colombians to travel there , chain them up, and treat them like dogs.
We Latin Americans are not here to be treated like dogs. We have been here for 60,000 years and America is our land, and only by respecting human diversity throughout America can we make a pact with the society of the United States, not on the basis of Mayan youth division, not on the basis of strolling through the monuments, but understanding that it is a peasant plot in the Andes, in the mountains or in our plains of Cordoba.
It’s not the Miami that people usually think of as Colombia, is it? And we refuse to be like Miami or to think like Miami. We are Colombians and we think like Colombians and we are proud of that, let them take their Miami mecrefe, who lives rich there and comes here and likes to live in comfort and luxury. But here we are workers.
If President Donald Trump didn’t even promise me not to say a single rude word about him, and I have kept my word, because I keep my word, he wants it. Here you will find the most determined battalion of warriors against drug trafficking and paramilitaries. But don’t count on us if, with the money of Netano, the genocidal maniac, with the money of Miley, who took Alambre to eat donkey meat where the best meat in America was produced in Argentina, with the money of the one who today is again firing tear gas at young people, bleeding them in Chile, with the
dirty money of the former president of Honduras, Mr. Hernández, a drug trafficker who was convicted by the United States justice system and with his filthy money in a pot like a stew, with Netano’s money, with the money of genocide, he comes here to buy the conscience of the Colombian people. No, look, are we going to turn up in Miami, are we going to hand over power to the landowners, are we going to hand Colombia over to the specters of death that have already killed 200,000 Colombians here? I say no. I say that we must stop the
specter of death. I say that a fight was fought here that must be respected because of the many dead lying in the fields, humble and hardworking people to whom we must take off our hats because they are part of the history of Colombia. They took the land by force here. Mr. Felix Gutierrez, down south in Buenavista, I think he’s on the land in Cucobanoy, does this.
The homeland cannot be defended. If they kneel before the gringos and drug trafficking. That is a homeland of lies, a bloody homeland. The only weak homeland is the firmness of the decision of the people of Colombia. That they’re going to kick me out of the presidency for trying to announce truths and speak them.
Well, fire me and I’ll go out into the street with my people. Suddenly I can do more in the streets at a time like in the Europe of Miguel Hernández’s time, when we have to go out and take a stand because what’s coming are the specters of death over power, to end everything we did in these 4 years, everything, because they can’t stand that the people have governed for 4 years and they despair if it were eight.
And what about 16? And what about a century of popular government in Colombia? How would Latin America change? How would America change? How would we change the world, which is more necessary today than ever if we want to live on this planet? How would we change the world from Córdoba, from Colombia, because from Colombia we are the heart of the world and we can determine its heartbeats and vibrations? We can unleash the death of the specters and the planet will be darkened morally and ethically, and Colombia will fall silent before the peoples
of the world. They’re already talking about removing us from the UN and the OAS, forcing us to hide and look at our own navels, because we would no longer be able to look squarely at the human beings who today demand that we be at the forefront of humanity to defend the life of the planet.
And there is no Colombian woman who doesn’t know how to defend her life. And I, Colombian women, call upon you , guardians of life, to the forefront of this battle for life, to the forefront of Without Fear, to not let yourselves be beaten, to not let yourselves be crushed, to not let yourselves be forced to have dignity, equal pay, to have freedom, free women, Association of Free Women of Colombia by the millions, to stop the barbarity that is coming upon our children.
I simply call upon you to defend the lives of your children, the lives of your families, the life of this land, of this river and of this water on which we have sustained ourselves as people of Córdoba. I invite you not only to defend life, but to continue the revolution for life in Colombia to build peace and dignity, freedom and life. Freedom and life. Freedom and life.
And never death. Never again death in Colombia. From here, from Córdoba, trampled by landowners, whose children were raised in Miami, here they murdered the old man who rode the donkey because he had nothing else to travel along the paths of the fields. From here, from this department that has suffered so much.
I tell the people of Colombia not to let their votes be bought, not even for half a million pesos, because half a million pesos for a vote is nothing compared to the minimum living wage, or to free universities for young people, or to the handover of thousands of hectares we are making right here, 50,000 hectares in Córdoba, which I wanted to be 100,000 and now must be 150,000 because the next government must continue the agrarian reform throughout the Caribbean of Colombia.
No more than vagrant lieutenants with nobodies in Miami talking about Mussolini and Bukele and saying “oh” because they have no idea what the Simón River is. They haven’t even touched the water in the Cenagadioro spring where I used to bathe as a child. They don’t know about that. They will charm and seduce those who seek death as security.
And I have to tell you, security is not death because it will be the death of our children. Safety is life. It is security for life, not for death. And that’s what we’re building in Colombia. Security to hand over these lands seized by blood and fire, to the Electric Sawmill, to death, to mass graves and return them to the working peasant people so that they can once again cultivate the land for food.
Food and more food. Minister of Agriculture, defending ourselves against the mega-child means producing more and more food so that no one here dies of hunger in the drought. And that is why, gentlemen of the government, you have a few billion pesos from the economic emergency that we were able to save thanks to magistrates in the Constitutional Court.
I even have to thank someone who was born in Córdoba, who didn’t dare, like Iváñez, to overturn the people’s reforms. Millions. But I don’t want that to happen, gentlemen of the government, and we will meet on Monday or Tuesday. I wish it were here. Because, what do we get out of it? I ask, fulfilling a peace agreement and an ethical and moral commitment to the history of Colombia, that since the Liberal Party back in 1850 with Murillo Toro asked for two things for Colombia, absolutely just, he asked for the liberation of the slaves and there were slave
owners who brought blacks to fight armed against those who asked for the freedom of those same blacks. This is Colombia and its contradictions. One was the freedom of the slaves César Gavillia and the other was the fundamental totem principles of the Liberal Party of Colombia in its history.
To carry out agrarian reform for the peasantry and end the feudalism of the large unproductive landowners who still devastate the fertile land of this country today. Freeing slaves, freedom and distributing the land to the peasantry. And the Liberal Party could not do it in a century and a half; its most valuable leaders, such as Jorge Elías Gaitán, were assassinated.
But we did. We are the heirs of the most genuine liberalism in Colombia. Because we have once again raised the banner of ending slavery and dignifying work in Colombia and emancipating it with dignity. And we have proposed, and we have done, an agrarian reform from these same bloodied lands of the department of Córdoba, with one of the most fertile lands in the country.
Agrarian reform, watch out government, which has acquired one million tareas. It is bigger than South Korea’s and it happened in 4 years, not a decade. And without a single death, after all those countries, including the United States of America, in order to carry out their own agrarian reforms to build industrialization on the basis of a field of efficient agricultural production, Europe did it, France did it, the Soviet Union did it, the United States did it, the Chinese did it, but with millions of deaths, with
wars, revolutions. And here we are doing it to show the world that in Colombia, or paradoxically, with so much violence unleashed over the struggle for land for two centuries, this government in 4 years acquired 1 million hectares to give to the peasantry of Colombia without a single death, without a single drop of blood spilled either by the possessors and evictors of the land or by the peasantry.
And this is no small thing; this is a lesson in Colombian history for future generations. Social justice does not require us to kill each other. We just need to agree. It just needs to be a common good, a common goal of the entire Colombian nation. Who told them that it’s communist for us to live in dignity in Colombia? Those who think like that are ignorant .
Who told them that a just country is found in the United States, or in Europe, that there is more justice than here? That’s why so many Colombians go there. Who told them that what’s being done in the United States is communism? that there are unions, that wages can be discussed, that land distribution plans can be made to produce more food, that the territory can be organized around water so that water does not kill us in the climate crisis, as we already experienced in the department of Córdoba.
Of course we can come to an agreement, and I invite you. They killed here, I brought a flower and we managed to make people smile and dance the porro again under the stars on the nights of the towns of Córdoba. We achieved it, but I don’t want, gentlemen of the government, that when only 400,000 hectares have been given to the peasants , that is, 600,000 are in the land fund, the specters of death come and then take the 600,000 hectares to appropriate them for themselves and steal the land from the peasantry again.
Hopefully that won’t happen, that you will invest the billions of pesos to rebuild and reform the territory of Córdoba in its disaster area and not leave the money for the next government, who will want to use it. Here we work hard, and anyone who does n’t want to and wants to go on vacation, well, let them go.
But we’re working here until August 6th. No general can disobey the orders of the supreme commander of the Colombian military forces until August 6th by popular mandate, which is President Gustavo Petro. The order I give to the police is to protect the peasants, protect their lands, and go after the lands of the mafiosos like Mr.
Felix Gutierrez, who acts like this while he strolls around the Cúcobano estates that he himself appropriated there in Buenavista and that we took from him. Not a single hectare of land belonging to mafiosos will go undistributed to the peasantry of Colombia and Córdoba. Order is my order. If that Miami scoundrel loses his estates, it’s because he appropriated them illegitimately.
Even like what former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez did on his estate, keeping the nation’s wastelands and turning them into private property. I appreciate that you returned them because you did it willingly once you discovered them. But we don’t have to kill each other over that. Now I believe, I hope, there are farmers producing corn and everything else that is grown here in the territories where only fine-stepping horses used to roam on Ubermo’s ranch. Food.
Well, from here, from this Cordoba, we say here in my town, in my land, next to the Sino River and under the stars, since they light us up and hopefully will light us up in all these nights so as not to deviate and lose the path of the history of Colombia. From here we say that we lived here for 20 years under the jugular wound placed under the feet of the paramilitary tigers and we did not surrender.
Here we resist, maestro, you with your music and the bands. That’s a way of resisting because we didn’t start dancing to Mexican northern corridos, but we kept the porro in the hearts of the people. And that’s called a cultural battle that you fought and I thank you for because they wanted to erase even our culture, the way we play music, the way we dance and enjoy life that every man and woman from Córdoba knows.
From here, from this department, we ask the people of Colombia, not for half a billion pesos, not for anything else, can we return the Nariño house to the specters of death, because they will murder our children. Power will not be handed over to criminals. This government taught that if we want democracy, if we want freedom, if we want to dance under the free stars, then we don’t put criminals in power, no matter how much of a Miami lowlife they are.
Ordinary people in government. Don’t trust me, gentlemen. Of fleeting fashions and sequins while they bare their fangs, preparing for the vampire slaughter of the people of Colombia. No, people from the community in government will continue to make mistakes, and many because we are human, but continue with the fundamental totems of Colombian society, which are freedom and life.
Fundamental totems, said Sigmund Freud. The totem is those stones that ancient peoples placed as if pointing to the stars, also so that no one forgets, so that the sign of that path is eternal. Totems so strong that they transcend generations, centuries, and millennia, and continue to remind humanity of the path it must follow to avoid falling into the abyss.
And the abyss is the missile and the money. And the way forward is through powerful words and the multitudes. And that is the path proposed for Colombia. Totems of Colombian society. Common goals of all society: freedom and life. Freedom and life. Freedom and life. Freedom and life. Never death for the people of Córdoba or Colombia.
I don’t vote for death, I vote for life. Whatever happens to me, I will do it for my children, for the history of Colombia, for those who are no longer here, for those who are here fighting by my side, for those who will come with dreams. I vote for life, not for death. I vote for the energies of light, not those of darkness.
Vote, if you will, in religion, Manicheanly, say the philosophers. I vote for what is good, for what is right, for what is true. And I don’t vote for what’s bad, for corruption, and for those who want to take the lives of our fellow citizens while saying that’s security. I vote for life. Whatever happens to me. And I hope that millions of Colombians, both men and women, decide in the depths of their hearts and minds when they hug their friends, when they hug their children, when a man and woman embrace each other in bed before making
love. Vote for life. Vote for life. Let’s not allow Colombia to be filled with darkness, with specters of death, with Miami scoundrels who smell of cadaverine in their perfume. Long live the department of Córdoba! Long live Colombia, land of beauty. Colombia, land of beauty. Long live agrarian reform throughout Colombia! Long live the revolution for life! We will not lower our flags.
Life and liberty. Freedom and life. Freedom and life. And freedom and life always, always and always. Thanks cortobeses. See you soon . My name is Gustavo Petro and I have been your president. It is an honor to govern them. Thank you. President Petro gave a tremendous speech. That’s why I wanted to bring it here and leave it on the channel so that you all could see it, and hopefully many more people will see it.
Because here he tells the country what Abelardo represents, what they are, what they have been there in Córdoba, what people in Córdoba know about them, about that family and so on, and what could come for the country if those people win. Obviously he looked furious or sad, or yes, the president in a situation like, ah, it’s that these people who let themselves be manipulated by this type of character to vote for their oppressor.
So, that was the powerful message from President Gustavo Petro from Córdoba, the house where Abelardo grew up. A rather nefarious character. Mayamense, says the president also sent a message to Donald Trump, make up your minds. Either they’re going to help us fight the drug traffickers, or they’re going to bring drug traffickers in to be friends with them or to work with them, allegedly according to the President of the Republic.
Make up your minds. But oh well, there it is. Petro’s speech was great, exciting in every way and at every moment. Colombians, this is the end of this video. Thanks for watching. See you next time .
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