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Cocaine is illegal because it is made in Latin America, not because it is worse than whisky.

— 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 (2022)

And finally remember: a rich country is not one where the poor manage to have a car, but one where the rich take public transportation.

Gaza is simply an experiment of the megarich, trying to show all the peoples of the world how they will respond to the rebellion of humanity. They intend to bomb us all.

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 (2022)

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