When Espriella said that Colombia is a country of ignorant people, he was right; electing the far right was a serious mistake, a violation of fundamental human rights 2.0—, Duque 2.0.
Esos migrantes colombianos que se benefician con la gratuidad que les da el país al que migraron pero votan por la derecha en Colombia, odian profundamente su país. No hay otra explicación.
Abelardo de la Espriella dice que extraditaría a @petrogustavo si EE. UU. lo pidiera, aunque Petro no tiene requerimiento alguno. Es decir: puro espectáculo, puro libreto.
Pero surge una pregunta inevitable: si el solicitado fuera Álvaro Uribe Vélez, ¿también lo extraditaría? Petro, aun siendo su contradictor, dijo que no lo haría por su condición de expresidente e incluso que lo defendería ante una eventual extradición.
Ahí está la diferencia: Petro actúa como demócrata y hombre de Estado. Abelardo no. Abelardo es un energúmeno que habla libreteado, sin profundidad, tocando todos los temas con argumentos cosméticos, efectistas y vacíos.
A quienes dicen: sigue Petro, lamento informarles que se quedarán esperando por estas 5 razones:
1- Petro fue elegido democráticamente, sin fraude, durante un gobierno de derecha y con una registraduria en manos de acérrimos detractores de Petro.
2- Distinto a Uribe, que violó la constitución para reelegirse y que se quería quedar un tercer periodo, Petro dijo que entregaría el cargo el 7/Ag de 2026, cumpliendo su periodo constitucional de 4 años.
3- Petro está garantizando elecciones este año. Ya destinó el presupuesto para la Registraduría y pidió a su partido que hicieran consultas. La derecha hace campaña sin mordaza y la prensa es libre.
4- En Colombia hay democracia. Hay separación de poderes, Cortes independientes, un Congreso independiente. Los partidos opositores funcionan y se les han girado sus partidas anualmente. Hay libertad de expresión, libertad de empresa, derecho y respeto por la propiedad privada, hay libertad de culto y no se cierran ni se persiguen medios de comunicación opositores.
5- En Colombia no hay presos políticos.
El de Colombia es un gobierno democrático. Violar la soberanía de un gobierno legítimo, por revanchismo político, despedaza el orden internacional.
Donald, before you threaten another Latin American country, remember who built the drug empire.
The CIA was running cocaine before Colombia was even exporting it.
You call Gustavo Petro a "drug leader," but your own agencies armed cartels, laundered money through Wall Street, and flooded American streets with narcotics to fund secret wars.
You speak of "killing fields."
Look closer.
They’re in your suburbs, your prisons, your pharmaceutical boardrooms.
Colombia didn’t invent this trade.
Washington perfected it.
You paid paramilitaries to burn peasant fields in the name of "democracy."
You trained death squads at the School of the Americas.
You turned "anti-narcotics" into a weapon of economic coercion, the perfect pretext for military occupation.
The "war on drugs" was never about stopping drugs.
It was about stopping sovereignty.
Every country that refuses to kneel gets called a cartel.
Every leader who resists you becomes a trafficker, a tyrant, or a terrorist.
And the biggest addict isn’t even Colombia.
It’s the United States.
Addicted to domination. High on exceptionalism. Incapable of withdrawal.
The empire doesn’t fight drugs.
It distributes them .
Militarized abroad. Medicalized at home.
Fentanyl for the poor. Antidepressants for the rich.
And propaganda for everyone in between.
Every time America runs out of enemies, it invents one south of the equator.
You did it with Cuba.
You did it with Venezuela.
Now it’s Colombia’s turn.
But the world has changed.
The South no longer trembles when you shout.
The countries you once called "backyard" now stand with China, Russia, and a new multipolar order that no longer fears your threats.
You say, "close up these killing fields."
Maybe you should start with your own.
The ones paved over with flags, malls, and empty promises.
Because the empire that feeds on addiction, whether to drugs, oil, or dominance, always overdoses on itself in the end.
@realDonaldTrump
President @petrogustavo is a world leader in the fight against drug trafficking, and it's not my words or hashtags that back this up: it's verified data.
Before Petro (2005–2021):
For nearly two decades, Colombia averaged 13,522 homicides per year in the fight against drug trafficking, seized about 249 tons of cocaine annually, and destroyed around 3,000 illegal labs.
That means 54 Colombians died for every ton seized.
It was a "war" that killed a lot and solved little: it didn't stop consumption or weaken drug trafficking.
Under President Petro's government (2022–2025), the country seizes over 810 tons of cocaine per year, destroys about 5,000 illegal labs, and homicides drop to around 12,000 annually.
Result: only 15 deaths per ton seized.
More seizures. More labs destroyed. Fewer lives lost. More sovereignty.
To make it easy to understand:
With @AlvaroUribeVel, they seized about 170 tons per year and destroyed about 2,000 labs, but nearly 100 Colombians died for every ton seized.
With @JuanManSantos, they reached 280 tons and 3,500 labs destroyed,
but 44 people still died per ton.
With @IvanDuque, they seized about 294 tons and destroyed 4,500 labs,
and there were still 45 deaths per ton.
With @petrogustavo, seizures exceed 810 tons annually and more than 5,000 labs have been destroyed, while homicides drop: only 15 deaths per ton.
In simple terms:
Before, every blow to drug trafficking cost dozens of lives.
Today, three times more drugs are seized with far less blood.
It's not permissiveness: it's effectiveness with sovereignty. 🇨🇴
When President Petro says the #WarOnDrugs is lost, it's not surrender: it's proven #truth.
The same has been said by the United States and @ONU_es:
Gil Kerlikowske, Obama's drug czar: “The war on drugs was counterproductive, it criminalized poverty and did not reduce consumption.”
Global Commission on Drug Policy (Clinton, Carter, Annan): “The global war on drugs has failed, millions incarcerated, violence spread, consumption not declined.”
UN / High Commissioner for Human Rights (2024): “We have witnessed a clear failure of the war on drugs; it has fueled violence, stigma and inequality worldwide.”
That's why, when President Petro proposes a new approach, he doesn't weaken the fight: he makes it human, effective, and sovereign.
Colombia stops repeating an imposed failure and assumes the defense of life and dignity as state policy. 🇨🇴
President @petrogustavo breaks with global hypocrisy, building a model that puts #life, #dignity, and human rights above business.
His policy is also backed by the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961), the Vienna Convention (1961), and UN Resolution 2025 on Drugs and Human Rights, adopted by consensus and led by #Colombia.
That's why dividing democracy weakens the Social Rule of Law:
when national unity breaks, the only winners are the narcos and the corrupt.
Sovereignty doesn't divide: it protects life, justice, and freedom.
I'm by your side, Mr. President; the accusations against the evidence and your leadership on human rights and our democracy are not fair. We will defend national unity.
#NationalUnity #ColombianSovereignty #AntiDrugFight
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Sources:
🔹 UNODC – Illicit Crop Monitoring 2023:
https://t.co/XLqKf5v1c8
🔹 National Institute of Legal Medicine – Forensis Homicides:
https://t.co/uhT4UwG9dY
🔹 Open Data – Seizures and Labs:
https://t.co/fTl3QufZNx
🔹 UN Human Rights – “The War on Drugs Has Failed” (2024):
https://t.co/ccufUPUPP1