After Colombian President Gustavo Petro had his American visa canceled on Friday (26), his government is wave of resignation and revocation of the document.
On Friday night, the US State Department reported that the leftist representative would have his visa canceled after participating in a Pro-Palestina protest in New York in which “uttered US soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence.”
“We will revoke Petro’s visa due to its reckless and incendiary actions,” the American Chancellery said in X.
The Colombian newspaper El Tiempo reported that, in solidarity with Petro, they resigned to the American visa the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rosa Villavicencio; the Presidency Legal Secretary, Augusto Ocampo; the presidential candidate Daniel Quintero; the Minister of Finance, Germán Ávila; and the Superintendent of Industry and Commerce and former Minister Cielo Rusinque.
The visas had revoked Minister of Mines and Energy, Edwin Palma, and the director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency (DAPRE), Angie Rodríguez.
Palm was one of the most provocative. He published in X the text of the US embassy in Colombia informing him about the revocation of his visa and wrote: “Gaza is worth a visa.”
According to El Tiempo, Interior Minister Armando Benedetti stated that other members of Petro management should give up the American visa in the coming days.
“The whole office and all government officials should commit to support the president in this unfair revocation of visa, who has political connotations within the United Nations and should never have happened,” said Benedetti.
