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Gustavo Petro
President, Colombia

LIVE | Colombia President Gustavo Petro Leads UN Security Council Debate on Middle East Peace | APT

🎥 Jun 10, 2026 📺 APT ⏱ 15m 👁 647 views
Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @apt_news   LIVE from the United Nations: Colombian President Gustavo Petro presides over a high-level UN Security Council Open Debate titled "Advancing Political Solutions in the Middle East: Mediation and Dialogue for Lasting Peace." As part of Colombia's presidency of the UN Security Council, world leaders, diplomats, and UN officials discuss pathways to peace, conflict resolution, mediation efforts, diplomatic engagement, and long-term stability across the Middle East. The debate focuses on strengthening political solutions, learning from p...
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About Gustavo Petro

In the weeks leading up to the June 2026 presidential runoff election, Gustavo Petro campaigned for his successor, Iván Cepeda, while defending his administration's record. Petro stated that his government had distributed one million hectares through agrarian reform, which he called the largest such reform in the contemporary world, and pointed to a reduction in infant and maternal mortality in La Guajira, where he said infant deaths fell 56.8% from 2022 levels. He also argued that Colombia's class had expanded to 34% of the population and that the country's poverty and hunger rates had fallen. Facing criticism over a reported rise in massacres, Petro said the homicide rate had remained stable and attributed regional violence to the global demand for cocaine and gold from illicit economies, while arguing that his "total peace" policy had reduced political violence. Petro was also active on the international stage. Speaking at the UN Security Council, which Colombia was presiding over, Petro described artificial intelligence as a "private oligopoly" and criticized what he called a "Nazi juridical criminal idea" of collective guilt against migrants. In an interview with CBS News, he characterized the U.S. endorsement of his far-right opponent as an "interference" in Colombia's sovereignty. In Barcelona, Petro warned of a global "crisis of the climate" driven by concentrated capital and called for a "constitution of the Earth" and a "new renaissance" based on human brotherhood and a global democracy that respects diversity. He also raised the possibility of electoral fraud in Colombia, stating that the firm that oversees vote tabulation was the same institution that appointed registrars, adding that "the people" would decide the outcome, while warning that a defeat of his candidate would represent a defeat of his progressive agenda.

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Republicans against origin, against grandiosity, for dialogue. Another final process, I think it's successful, and wounds, etc., from that process. Under fire, things burn. Analyze depth on the previous planet. Product, the animals that manipulate, dogs, cats, horses. Belfar. Expression. That the Second World War, with its peoples, states and peoples resisted, I think that the announcement of the worst slavery over humanity, of assuming the manipulated, and here only on a much larger scale that he didn't know the capacity for manipulation of humanity. And humanity is suffering something similar to what it suffered, and others. Ireland I don't know well, if not I mention the current fact that should lead us to this reflection: the power of artificial intelligence as it currently is. The facts of violence in Colombia. More. When artificial intelligence is competition, logical in the market, a competition that generates the same market competition, monopolies and oligopoly. Artificial intelligence is a private oligopoly. It has been competition. That is the so-called trade war, and it's nothing more than a race with speed, velocity, computational capacity. Undoubtedly. That is what marks development today, allowing some countries and not others. But in the world we are seeing it, the capacity for development is located in two countries. But it's the principle of competition that, ITC, on the side of the breeding crisis, as we say Hawkins, manages to separate reality. Separate labor, the cold, the eternal of God in a process of truth and a lie. I am seeing it myself, even yesterday, because I dared to put a tweet on this network. I entered before it was called X. Mine, for lack of knowledge, communications, context, a phrase that a journalist responded to, a problem discussion, that said to fascist ideas that I have defended today. What happened, answering the phrase 'Hitler point' without context, and it had 34 million views. At first I thought it was all the Colombian people observing the debate, looking at it, reading it, but no, it never happened to me. The biggest expansion of one of my tweets was responded to by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in a difficult moment. Practically the entire population, 40% of Colombia is still not connected. Social. What happens when looking at the facts, to trigger political violence. Well, with Belf the same thing happened, a crime that justice must judge, of the British parliamentarian who wrote yesterday, his name is Rupert L, and he writes that this assassination or this attempt, because it's not an attempt, of assassination committed by a Somali, result. Somalia. From that, it's the fault of life, the exact culprits, a Nazi position. And then what he says is it's the fault of migrants. Yes, they didn't say the same about the Jewish people in Europe. The Nazi criminal legal idea of collectivizing guilt in a group, that a Jew committed in Germany started in Egypt, Germany, in Berlin seen the fire of what the Nazis said had been produced by communists, to take all the labor leadership of Germany, all the German social democracy, etc., etc., to the Jews. Finally, to those who helped us extinguish, to retire for my ideas, to be ashamed of having fought against Nazis, and they retire for humanity. Here neighbors are already beating activists who support this government, poor neighbors. To vote for those who have killed them. Truths turned into lies, lies, intelligence, well-financed, enormously financed. We are forgiven of this, and this approach under the slogan 'Enough' radiated by millions of people. 'Enough' refers to assassination. He is right, 'enough' of the assassination attempt with the criminal. Not of a people, not of the people of the third world to which the parliamentarian death penalty, death penalty for all migrants. And the owner of this launched a proposal for the death penalty for all migrants. Hitler was a greater power, and it's not this anti-migrant ideology that has that origin. Much is racist because it defends a whiteness of skin that doesn't exist. There are no races in the world, diverse ways of articulating ourselves to the environment, men and women, and any provenance from a concrete region. So, the scientific falsehood, denying the science that is done on this topic and on the topic of the, is leading to the barbarity of what has happened to Israel, whose people came here, whose people suffered a Holocaust. The United States, whose workers, millions went to fight in foreign countries for a will, humanity, transforms the truth. Therefore, I ask you to act on these two fronts. First, the topic of artificial intelligence. Then, for individuals, so that we can meet dialoguing, and then with artificial intelligence, no, five interests of individuals, call them Chinese, global, has asked for this current of ideas.