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Gustavo Petro
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“I ask El Espinal mayors not to allow more events involving the death of people or animals [after the bullfighting stadium collapse].”
Gustavo Petro (born 1960) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gustavo Petro (2022) cited in: "Colombia: Scores injured in deadly bullfight stand collapse" in BBC, 28 June 2022.
“You all insist that the market will save us from what the market itself has created. Humanity’s Frankenstein is allowing the market and greed to act without any planning, giving up our brains and reason, making human rationality kneel before greed.”
Gustavo Petro (born 1960) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gustavo Petro (2022) cited in: "‘War on drugs has failed’: At UN, Colombia condemns ‘addiction to money and oil’" in Multipolarista, 24 September 2022.
“Hitler is knocking on the doors of the homes of the European and North American middle class and many have already let him in. The [climate] exodus will be responded to with a lot of violence, with barbarism itself, what we see in Gaza is the test of the future. Why have large carbon-consuming countries allowed the systematic murder of thousands of children in Gaza? Because Hitler already entered their homes.”
Gustavo Petro (born 1960) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gustavo Petro (2023) cited in: "Hitler is knocking on the doors" in Euro ES, 1 December 2023.
“Cocaine is illegal because it is made in Latin America, not because it is worse than whisky.”
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“Scientists have analyzed this. Cocaine is no worse than whiskey. [...] If you want peace, you have to dismantle the [drug trafficking industry]. It could easily be dismantled if they legalize cocaine in the world. It would be sold like wine.”
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“[Fentanyl] is killing Americans and it is not made in Colombia. [...] Fentanyl was created as a pharmacy drug by North American multinationals.”
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