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President Donald Trump got fully to Colombia in his reelection campaign.
(In context: Trump attacks Biden and says Petro supported his campaign)
This Thursday, during two events in Florida, the US president accused his rival Joe Biden of having supported a plan, the peace process, with the who surrendered to drug traffickers and allowed drug crops in the country to skyrocket.
“That administration also negotiated the terrible Obama deal.Biden-Santos who surrendered to the narcos and allowed illicit drugs to skyrocket. That is why my administration aligned with our partners to reach a new effort to combat drugs and since April we have seen more than 270 metric tons of drugs seized, “the president said during a campaign event in Jacksonville.
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At another time he repeated the idea but this time he got involved with Senator Gustavo Petro, whom he called “a socialist.”
“The previous administration surrendered to the Colombian narco-terrorists. Is there anyone from Colombia here? You know what happens there, right? Biden has even received the endorsement of the socialist Gustavo Petro. Not good, right? Not a good endorsement at all. A former member of the M-19 guerrilla. It’s not a good endorsement and he knows it. But under my administration we launched a historic naval effort that has seized tons and tons of drugs, “said the president.
Although Trump had already been talking about Venezuela and Cuba, it is the first time in this final stretch of the campaign that he uses the issue of Colombia.
And he used it in Florida, a state that may be crucial to his re-election and where he hopes the Latino vote and the Colombian community will back him.
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For several months now, Republicans in this state have painted Biden as a “socialist” that, if he came to power, he would impose on the US. a regime similar to that of the Castro in Cuba and Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela.
Biden, for his part, has vigorously rejected the allegations, arguing that Republicans are fueling that speech to cause fear among voters.
The former vice president, in fact, recently said thatthat of a socialist he did not have a hair and that before he defeated the socialist of the contest, which was Senator Bernie Sanders.
He has said, in turn, that plans to tighten even more the Maduro regime and will insist on a democratic solution to the crisis in conjunction with regional allies.
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He promised, in passing, that he would immediately grant temporary protected status to Venezuelans in the United States. that would allow them to work legally. Something that both Trump and Republicans in Congress oppose.
SERGIO GÓMEZ MASERI
TIME CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON
