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In the midst of the controversy that was formed by the mention that the mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, made about Venezuelan citizens during a press conference on crime in the city, Senator Gustavo Petro released a statement that also sparked controversy.
“I don’t want to stigmatize Venezuelans, but there are some who are seriously making our lives out of hand. Whoever comes to work is welcome here, but whoever comes to commit a crime should be deported immediately, ”the mayor said Thursday.
This provoked a shower of reactions on social networks, including that of Senator Gustavo Petro, who criticized what the president of the capital said, in which he assured that Venezuelans left that they left their country “fled the blockade.”
(See also: Claudia López proposes deporting Venezuelans involved in crime)
“The discourse of xenophobia. They already have an internal enemy in Bogotá: the Venezuelans who fled the blockade. The culprits of the evils are them, according to the mayor. As in Hitler’s time, these phrases will collect millions of applause and deaths, ”said Petro on his Twitter account.
The discourse of xenophobia. They already have an internal enemy in Bogotá: the Venezuelans who fled the blockade.
The culprits of the evils are them, according to the mayor.
As in Hitler’s time, these phrases will collect millions of applause and deaths. https://t.co/P361q1oRU3
– Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) October 30, 2020
Immediately, several people in this same social network reproached what the congressman said and asked him to clarify that the migrants left Venezuela “because of a dictatorship.”
Among the measures that have been promoted in the world against the Venezuelan regime, especially by the United States, are the commercial, economic and diplomatic sanctions that have been applied in recent months.
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