Petro Bids Farewell After Colombia's First Leftist Government
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19 Articles
A video supposedly shows fireworks in Medellin in the early hours of August 7 as a celebration at the end of Gustavo Petro’s term. The recording has been widely broadcast accumulating millions of views (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), even pages that are passed through media have reviewed the apparent news. And politicians like Maria Fernanda Cabal have shared it by saying “Colombia celebrated the end of the government.” But it is false. The recording is neithe…
El Periódico
Gustavo Petro soon associated literature with his political activity. As he joined the April 19th Movement (M-19), being almost a teenager, he adopted Aureliano as the name of war. A tribute to Colonel Aureliano Buendía, the character of Gabriel García Márquez’s top novel, one hundred years of solitude, but also a promise of political centrality and manifest destiny. That Buendía embodies in the novel the disappointment that provokes power after…
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