The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, criticized the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, María Corina Machado, this Saturday (11), for resorting to the support of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, whom he called a “criminal”. The criticism was made on the Colombian president’s profile on X.
Corina was awarded the . After the announcement, she dedicated the achievement to “the suffering people of Venezuela” and also to Donald Trump, stating that she counts on the support of the US president “now more than ever” to help Venezuelans “achieve freedom and democracy”.
Petro, who says that Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, shared on his profile a 2018 letter written by Corina, addressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Argentine president Mauricio Macri.
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In the document, she requested international protection to confront the “Venezuelan criminal regime”, associated with drug trafficking and terrorism.
The Colombian president says, in his letter, that he does not understand the reasons for Corina to ask for help from a “criminal”, also stating that “in these years of genocide against which I fought, I saw that the extreme right-wing political groups in the world, those in tune with Hitler, became the only allies of the genocide and of Netanyahu”.
He questioned how a “genocide can help build peace in Venezuela”, also mentioning the US Navy’s attacks on vessels in the Caribbean.
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The White House reported, at the time, that the targets were boats used in drug trafficking that occurred between Venezuela and the USA. Petro emphasizes that he does not have approval from the Trump administration due to the criticism he made about the North American country in relation to the lack of action in Gaza.
“Donald Trump has managed to distance himself a few centimeters from Netanyahu now, after humanity has taken a huge step forward, even in Colombia and Argentina, and this has made it possible to stop, for now, the genocide already in progress,” said Petro, in the publication.
As mentioned by the president of Colombia himself, he maintains a history of criticizing Donald Trump. In a statement, he said that Trump considers him to be “an inferior race.” In September, during a speech at the UN (United Nations), Petro called for the opening of criminal proceedings against Trump, alleging that the North American leader had ordered attacks on vessels close to the Venezuelan coast.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was responsible for nominating María Corina Machado for the Nobel Peace Prize.
