Following the figure revealed by the National Administrative Department of Statistics (Dane), in which it indicates that Colombia during the year 2023 had an economic growth of 0.6%, former president Iván Duque launched a strong criticism of the current government of the president Gustavo Petro.
Through his His conclusion was that the country’s economy is “petrified.”
According to the former president during the first year of his mandate, 2019, “We almost doubled the growth of 2017 and grew compared to 2018 thanks to pro-business and pro-growth policies.” In that order of ideas, Duque maintained that thanks to the measures that were adopted during that first year, by 2021 they managed to achieve “the greatest growth in our history and by August 2022 the trend achieved allowed us to achieve the second greatest growth in our history.”
In the publication, Iván Duque assures that after the dismantling of these policies by the new Government, “In 2023 we achieved the worst growth in years, excluding the global COVID-19 crisis, the growth in 2023 was even worse than in 2009 in the midst of the global financial crisis.”
And he concluded: “When investment is attacked, mistrust is created and the businessman is persecuted, there is a decrease in growth, which means that, both in 2023 and 2024, our country’s economy is petrified.”
In 2019 we almost doubled the growth of 2017 and grew compared to 2018 thanks to pro-business and pro-growth policies.
In 2021, these same measures allowed us the greatest growth in our history and by August 2022, the trend achieved… pic.twitter.com/6E6MPbBqun
— Ivan Duke (@IvanDuque) February 16, 2024