He made a speech at the UN calling for intervention to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and criticizing the US’s violence in the Caribbean, and then the US revoked his visa.
He also directly called for US soldiers to disobey orders, so there may be more to this story.
Disobey orders? Or disobey illegal orders?
asking people to disobey illegal orders is literally telling people to follow the law.
how is that a bad thing?
Yeah, it’s the part where the US military is summarily executing civilians right at his country’s doorstep.
Is “just following orders” back on the menu?
Anyway, I saw no call for US troops to disobey orders, where is it?
https://eleanorsquad.substack.com/p/un-speech-by-gustavo-petro-urrego
The action was not taken following his UN speech. it was following a separate speech in which he said, “I ask all the soldiers of the United States’ army, …disobey the orders of Trump.”
Imagine Trump visiting Colombia and saying something like that (not that hard to imagine, really). Petro would be in every right to revoke his visa.
For additional context, it was not clear which orders he was referring to, but there are no US Army troops in Gaza.
Thank you for explaining
The UN should’ve never been located in the US. It’s biased af, and I’m saying this as an American. Because imagine how this feels if the UN was in Shanghai or Moscow. This shit is so dumb. Should be in Geneva, Switzerland, an actual neutral country.
But they didn’t arrest Netanyahu?
Time to take the U.N. out of the U.S. and kick the U.S. out of the U.N.
Pull the UN out of the USA.
Can that man run for president here? Coz he seems to have our best interests in mind more so than our current TACO.
Stay classy America
that’s what nazis would do
UN: guys we can’t really meet in New York anymore. What do we do with this real estate now?
The real estate belongs to the United States government.Trump, of course, has already said he wants to build a hotel/casino there.Edit: oops, my mistake. The city of New York donated the land to the UN, on which they built the complex. It is considered international territory. Something I did not know.
Nope, belongs to the UN. Looked it up yesterday.
Are they going to deport him to an Ecuadorian prison?
Nope, Sudanese
