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This Is Lina Garrido, the Representative to the House Who Attacked Gustavo Petro in the Installation of the Congress: “Sulphur Smells”

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The intervention of the opposition congresswoman marked the inaugural day of the Congress, noting, according to her, the lack of results of the government and accusing the president of betraying Colombia

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The congresswoman started by quoting a famous phrase by the late Hugo Chávez in 2006: in this venue, she said, “sulphur smell.” But she did not refer, like the Venezuelan leader, to the presence of George W Bush at the UN. Lina María Garrido, a congressman in the Colombian House of Representatives for the Radical Change party, referred to the presence of President Gustavo Petro at the Capitol. On July 20, during the installation of the fourth ye…

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The intervention of the opposition congresswoman marked the inaugural day of the Congress, noting, according to her, the lack of results of the government and accusing the president of betraying Colombia

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Garrido acknowledged that he had voted for Petro for the presidency, but was emphatic in pointing out that his government has not complied with what was promised. Congresswoman Lina María Garrido became a trend on social networks for a speech she gave the day before, in which she accused President Gustavo Petro of betraying the country and not giving results, which earned him praise from various sectors both in Colombia and abroad.

The installation of the Congress of the Republic was the stage for a forceful call of attention by the representative to the House for Radical Change, Lina María Garrido Martín, to President Gustavo Petro. In a speech, direct and blunt that went viral on social networks, Garrido expressed the feeling of [...] La entrada Lina Garrido: The congresswoman who confronted Petro for lack of results and corruption scandals in Colombia #21Jul was first p…

Colombian congresswoman Lina María Garrido became a trend this Monday on social media for a speech she gave the day before, in which she accused President Gustavo Petro of betraying the country and not giving results, which earned him praise from various sectors both in Colombia and abroad. Garrido, representative to the House for the right-wing Radical Change party, delivered on Sunday, on Colombia's Independence Day, an 18-minute speech with h…

After being held on July 20, in the Congress of the Republic President Gustavo Petro led the fourth and last legislature of this compound during his period as head of state. The president addressed the opposition and his government team with a speech that lasted more than two hours. ... The post Petro responds to criticisms by Lina Garrido after opposition speech appeared first on ::Tolima Online:.

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La Silla Vacía broke the news in on Monday, July 21, 2025.
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