https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1971782875818160164#m

https://xcancel.com/petrogustavo/status/1971880485383995779#m

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I’ve arrived in Bogotá. I no longer have a visa to travel to the US. I don’t care. I don’t need a visa, but an ESTA, because I’m not only a Colombian citizen but a European citizen, and I truly consider myself a free person in the world.

Humanity must be free throughout the world. We have the human right to live on the planet.

I am free, and every human being must be free on earth.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-revoke-colombia-president-petros-visa-over-reckless-actions-new-york-2025-09-27/

https://archive.is/FNqRJ (reuters)

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    Humanity is against genocide, and in Colombia, there was a genocide against the people when fascist conservatives ordered the liberals to be defeated by blood and fire, and the genocide continued afterward, allied with drug trafficking.

    Never in any country in the world has the mafia had such extensive control over the state as in Colombia. Never in any country in the world has the mafia been able to make so many laws and kill hundreds of thousands of peasants and young people from the very power of the state.

    Never anywhere in the world has the mafia managed to evict millions of peasants from their lands. The drug-trafficking governance that was established in Colombia was genocidal.

    Luis Carlos Galán denounced this and was murdered for it. That Galán, whom I personally knew as a young M19 fighter, to whom I told him we were brothers, must be revived in the voice of his ancestor, the community member José Antonio Galán, dismembered by the Castilians for being a rebel.

    Those responsible for this genocide are trying to shelter behind you, Trump, because they believe you protect genocide perpetrators. Don’t surround yourself with genocide perpetrators.

    Humanity demands an end to the crime against humanity in Gaza. The Israelis have experienced an act of terror against their youth at a concert, and there were deaths that shouldn’t have happened. But the response must not be a crime against humanity. We cannot allow babies to be murdered in Gaza.

    Your wife, Mr. Trump, or your daughters should tell you that killing babies is not right. My daughters tell me so.

    I respect your family and I told you I’d have a whiskey, despite my gastritis, at your house or mine, or wherever you want, but speaking face to face, among equals, as men, and without lies. You didn’t answer me.

    Put aside the nonsense of your advisors, see humanity clearly and what is happening. You don’t know how to make America Great by killing defenseless babies.

    Now they’re going to turn my free and human opinion into a crime. You know that international laws grant me immunity to go to the UN and that there should be no reprisals for my free opinion, because I am a free person.

    Missiles should not fall on the civilian population of Gaza. Missiles should not fall on poor young people in the service of drug traffickers or on farmers trying to survive. Missiles should not fall on migrants who leave because they can’t stand poverty. Migrants are not criminals and do not deserve the death penalty; doing so is a crime against humanity.

    Trump, stay away from Hitler, there’s still time. I prayed for the US soldiers who died for freedom on the front lines of the Gothic Line near Florence, the Renaissance city in Italy. I prayed in their holy field.

    Don’t kill freedom. My ancestors lived 30,000 years ago in America and built languages, art, and civilization. Your ancestors barely arrived a century ago, but that doesn’t matter. You are welcome in America, the land of freedom and in the country of Bolívar: Gran Colombia. No US citizen will be prohibited from entering because we are free. But no war criminal, much less a criminal against humanity, will enter.

    No more Auschwitz, for oil, in the midst of business. There is time for love and humanity, says the Bible.

    Free yourself, Trump, from that slavery that will last for generations.

    I said, and it’s not a crime, that one should not obey the voices that order their armies to fire on humanity.

    I am, in addition to being a Colombian who is proud of his country, which he loves, its enormous tropical beauty, its sea and its mountains, and all its cultures, as beautiful as nature, a European citizen. I don’t need a visa, but I will go only when invited by its people.

    I don’t even need to travel; Colombia is the heart of the world, and in its lands there are human beings who have all the peoples of the world in their veins, and I can distinguish their ancestors. I can see the world by traveling through my country.

    Before leaving New York, I entered a shopping mall, and the Black and white women of the United States placed their hands on their hearts when they saw me and recognized me. Beautiful free people, don’t frighten them with rifles, Mr. Trump. Bolívar said: Cursed be the soldier who raised arms against his people. I tell you, I did not order your army to raise its weapons against humanity, because humanity will respond.

    If there is a crime against humanity, humanity must respond, and Colombia, with Bolívar, responds.

    Not one step back.

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      I respect your family and I told you I’d have a whiskey, despite my gastritis, at your house or mine, or wherever you want, but speaking face to face, among equals, as men, and without lies. You didn’t answer me.

      Doesn’t trump famously not drink? I love it.

      Now they’re going to turn my free and human opinion into a crime. You know that international laws grant me immunity to go to the UN

      Maybe a bit in the weeds but thinking of Mamdanis promise to arrest netanyahu and turn him over to the ICJ. Do either of them have immunity?

      I mean under the law, not practically. Am wondering if it will be basis of how Mamdani could get out of his promise.

      No US citizen will be prohibited from entering because we are free. But no war criminal, much less a criminal against humanity, will enter.

      Is that a policy?

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        Maybe a bit in the weeds but thinking of Mamdanis promise to arrest netanyahu and turn him over to the ICJ. Do either of them have immunity? I mean under the law, not practically.

        Until Trump II, what Petro did would not have been enough to get a normal visa revoked, let alone a diplomatic visa. You don’t need to have immunity to speak at a protest.

        Netanyahu is committing a genocide. The legal argument for arresting Netanyahu is that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_jurisdiction applies to genocide. That means any state at any level of government is able to prosecute the crime (or arrest the fugitive and bring them to the more appropriate court, like the ICJ). I don’t think this is enshrined in US law, and in practice universal jurisdiction is just for bringing Africans to european international courts. But that’s the theory (afaik, i’m no lawyer)