The statement by Colombian President Gustavo Petro comes after Washington kidnapped Venezuela’s leader and threatened Cuba
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has cautioned the US administration against trying to build “an empire” in Latin America, urging Washington to pursue dialogue rather than military intervention.
Petro’s remarks came after the US intervened in Venezuela in January, when US forces seized President Nicolas Maduro in a raid in Caracas, and amid repeated warnings from Washington about possible “regime change” in Cuba.
Latin America is not a “land to be conquered,” the Colombian president said in an interview with Politico published on Thursday. “I believe that there are people in the US government who think similarly: that instead of imposing an empire from which Cubans always liberate themselves, what is ultimately needed is to establish a dialogue between the Americas and include Cuba in the world of fiber optics and clean energy,” Petro said.
The head of state also leveled criticism at US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and former Trump adviser and billionaire Elon Musk. He accused both of promoting a vision of a “white, Christian, Western civilization” and warned against trying to revive “the age of the Crusades,” saying such rhetoric could generate an “enormous level of violence within each society.”
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