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Addendum to my prior post...
While noodling around the interweb to find something about Petro's plane actually arriving, I ran across this which describes what our peaceful partner Gustavo Petro's leadership team looks like. Lets start with an environmental activist and former housekeeper as VP and an environmental activist in charge of mining.... Also note Petro's commitment to sacrificing 50% of their export revenues on the altar of climate change. And now he whines about Trump's tariffs affecting the trade balance.
Tax the rich, free college for everyone, and here is the best one, THE head of Colombia's Communist Party as his labor secretary. What's not to like about our stable partner, he is a greenie who embodies progressive dogma all the way.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/8/gustavo-pe...Gustavo Petro sworn in as Colombia’s president.
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Gustavo Petro, a former rebel fighter, has been sworn in as Colombia’s first left-wing president.
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former member of the M-19 armed group took his oath of office in Bogota’s Bolivar Plaza on Sunday afternoon, pledging to unite the polarised country in the fight against inequality and climate change, and achieve peace with rebel groups and crime gangs.
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His foreign minister has said the government will hold dialogue with gangs and potentially give members reduced sentences in exchange for information about drug trafficking.
Armed groups should accept that deal, Petro said.
“We call on all those who are armed to leave their arms in the haze of the past. To accept legal benefits in exchange for peace, in exchange for the definitive non-repetition of violence,” Petro told the cheering crowd gathered under a bright Andean sun.
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Climate change must be fought internationally, but especially by countries which emit the most greenhouse gases, Petro added, saying Colombia would transition to an economy without coal or oil.On the campaign trail, Petro said Colombia
will stop granting new licenses for oil exploration and will ban fracking projects, even though the oil industry makes up almost 50 percent of the nation’s legal exports. <<<<<< FIFTY PERCENT
He plans to finance social spending with a $10bn-a-year tax reform that would
boost taxes on the rich and do away with corporate tax breaks.Petro has also said a top priority is to fight hunger in the country of 50 million, where nearly half the population lives at some level of poverty. He has also pledged
free public university education and healthcare changes, and constructed a broad congressional coalition of left-wing and centrist parties to pass his platform..
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New Vice President Francia Marquez, an environmental activist and former housekeeper, is the first Afro-Colombian woman to hold her post.Their cabinet includes an internationally renowned professor, Jose Antonio Ocampo, as finance minister and
an academic who researches the negative impacts of industries as minister for mining.
The labour ministry
will be led by the head of Colombia’s communist party.Bogota, Colombia, August 7, 2022 [Luisa Gonzalez/ Reuters]
