Colombia | Social sectors mobilized in support of President Petro - video Dailymotion

Mobilizations in support of President Gustavo Petro took place in Colombia, and are expected to continue in the country. teleSUR

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00:00In Colombia, the Bolívar Square in the capital was the scene of two activities that reflect

00:05the reality of a country marked by violence and political persecution.

00:08Our colleague Hernan Tobar with the details.

00:14Survivors of the leftist political party Patriotic Union, victims of paramilitary political violence

00:19in all divisions of the state, leaving at least 5 21 forced disappearances, 3,170 extrajudicial

00:27executions, 1,526 displacements, 64 cases of torture.

00:34In the face of local impunity, the victims resorted to international justice and in compliance

00:39with the order of the International Court of Human Rights.

00:42The state must recognize its responsibility for the extermination of the Patriotic Union.

00:50They lasted many years killing us, persecuting us for thinking differently.

00:55More than 6,400 victims also from the Patriotic Union and of course many union leaders murdered,

01:01social leaders, also the students, the housewives.

01:13All our leaders were being military targets, and now there is another context, because

01:18it is a coup against the president, in which some organs of justice are involved, especially

01:22some high courts and well.

01:24We also have the National Electoral Council.

01:35In this space also converge precisely some social sectors that chose the progressive

01:39political alternative represented by President Gustavo Petro, today pointed out and persecuted

01:45by the strategy of legal warfare that seeks to remove him from the presidency.

01:50A war against thinking and acting differently from the oligarchies that has claimed victims

01:54and that now through legal means seeks to undermine democracy in Colombia.

02:03Our presence here is to tell the National Electoral Council that what they are committing

02:07is a crime and therefore obeys dark political motives in that they are violating the law

02:11and are giving a coup d'etat to President Gustavo Petro, who was elected by all

02:24Colombians in clear and clean elections, which no country in the world dared to put on trial.

02:37The National Electoral Council will have to retract all those things it is saying and

02:41the notification it sent, because they do not have the capacity nor are they authorized

02:49by the Constitution to point the finger at the President.

02:56Unfortunately, these actions, which were expected to be attended by President Gustavo Petro,

03:04were not possible due to the health problems of the President.

03:07The acknowledgment of responsibility by the state to the victims of the patriotic union

03:11will be rescheduled for a new date, and the mobilizations in support of him and his government

03:16will continue to take place in the country.