The Government of Colombia requested the departure of Argentine diplomats from the national territory. This incident, which escalated after the statements of the Argentine president, Javier Milei, who called the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, a “terrorist and communist murderer” during an interview, marks a high point in bilateral relations. Faced with this, the representative to the Chamber, Andrés Forero, commented on the situation that the determination of the country’s public administration is exaggerated.
The reaction of the congressman against the national government came after the Foreign Ministry, through a publication on its official X account, announced the aforementioned decision regarding relations with Argentina.
Regarding the latter, the representative Forero of the Democratic Center said the following: “Breaking relations with Argentina due to President Milei’s insults is a bit exaggerated when @petrogustavo has compared the Argentine president with Videla and Pinochet and lives looking for trouble with other governments ”.
And he closed his publication saying: “Meanwhile, the Venezuelan dictator tolerates everything,” referring to a controversy in recent days, in which several political figures asked the head of state to condemn the actions of Nicolás Maduro in the context of the Venezuelan elections.
In fact, on the topic of President Petro’s position on Venezuela and the president of that country, the legislator has made several publications talking about the subject, in the most recent one he said the following: “Today it is key to remember that for @petrogustavo the system Colombian electoral “is much worse” than the Venezuelan one. With his complicit silence after the exclusion of the opposition from the presidential elections, the only thing left to do is think that he wants the same for Colombia.”
However, that was not Forero’s only message regarding the situation because he also made another publication in which he said: “Maduro excludes the opposition from the presidential elections and insults and laughs at @petrogustavo. Response: lukewarm statement from @CancilleriaCol and presidential exaltation of Chávez. Milei responds to Petro’s insults: Answer: break relations with Argentina. Vanity and double standards.”
Regarding the statement from the Foreign Ministry, it said that: “On behalf of the Government of Colombia, it repudiates statements made by Mr. Javier Milei, president of Argentina in an interview with the CNN channel in which he expressed himself in a denigrating manner against the first president of the Colombians, the respected Mr. Gustavo Petro.”
In the statement they also said that: “This is not the first time that Mr. Milei offends the Colombian president, affecting the historical relations of brotherhood between Colombia and Argentina. The Argentine president’s expressions have deteriorated the confidence of our nation, in addition to offending the dignity of President Petro, who was democratically elected.”
And the deterioration of diplomatic relations between Argentina and Colombia has been evident after the exchange of controversial statements between the leaders of both nations. The recent episode, where the Argentine president, Javier Milei, attacked the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, with insults during an interview with CNN’s Andrés Oppenheimer, adds tension to the differences in ideas of both.
This conflict is not an isolated event, since previously, during the electoral campaign in Argentina, Petro had compared Milei to Nazism saying “This is what Hitler said”, making public his skepticism about the then candidate through a post in X.
On the other hand, at the time the Colombian president did not attend the inauguration ceremony in Buenos Aires, but on the contrary other prominent left-wing leaders in the region did attend, such as the Chilean president Gabriel Bóric, marking a notable difference in diplomacy. regional. However, Colombia was represented by key figures from his government, including Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva and Ambassador Romero. With Infobae