Colombia: Pres. Petro denounces treatment of Latin American migrants in the U.S.

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Colombian people mobilize in defense of democracy and the government of President Gustavo Petro. From the city of Ibagué, citizens took to the streets in a large popular mobilization to defend democracy, human dignity, and social justice. In this context, Colombian President Gustavo Petro rejected the unfair treatment of Colombians and Latin Americans in the United States, denouncing the anti-migration rhetoric and accusing U.S. authorities of seeking to turn Latin Americans into slaves of an imperialist regime. The head of state also emphasized that the U.S. government is complicit in the genocide being carried out in the Gaza Strip by the Zionist regime of Israel.  #teleSUREnglish #PetroDenouncesUS #MigrantRights #ColombiaMobilizes #GazaCrisis #LatinAmericanUnity

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00:00Welcome back to From the South.

00:02Colombian people mobilized in defense of democracy and the government of President

00:06Gustavo Petro.

00:07From the city of Ibagué, citizens took to the streets in a large popular mobilization

00:12to defend democracy, human dignity and social justice.

00:16In the sense Colombian President Gustavo Petro rejected the unfair treatment of Colombians

00:20and Latin Americans in the United States, and denounced the anti-immigration US rhetoric,

00:26stating that they seek to turn Latin Americans into slaves of the imperialist regime.

00:31In turn, the head of state emphasized that the United States government is an accomplice

00:35of the genocide being carried out in the Gaza Strip by the Zionist regime of Israel.

00:42The United States, till this day, is an accomplice to a genocide that assert Netanyahu.

00:54I don't say Israelis or Jews, I don't.

00:58I respect the religion, their beliefs, that is what our Constitution ordains.

01:04But I don't respect Netanyahu killing babies with bombs that even have Colombian coal.

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