Top 8 Gustavo Petro Quotes

[Fentanyl] is killing Americans and it is not made in Colombia. [...] Fentanyl was created as a pharmacy drug by North American multinationals.

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.

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

Translation: 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.

Y finalmente recuerden: país rico no es aquel donde los pobres logran tener carro, sino donde los ricos toman el transporte publico.

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.

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.

I ask (El Espinal) mayors not to allow more events involving the death of people or animals (after the bullfighting stadium collapse).