'A criminal with power becomes genocidal' - Petro compares Netanyahu to Colombia's paramilitaries and drug cartels

"Colombian President Gustavo Petro compared the situation in Gaza to the impact of drug trafficking and paramilitarism in Colombia on Friday at a government achievements presentation in Barranquilla, arguing that both phenomena expanded through the support and influence of political power. "If a criminal has power, that criminal becomes empowered and no longer kills one or two or ten people, but can kill an entire town. It produces genocide. Or if not, look at what Mr Netanyahu does in the world with the babies of Gaza, in Palestine," he said, concluding that "a criminal with power becomes genocidal." Petro's remarks come as part of his tour of Colombia's Caribbean region ahead of Sunday's elections. In May 2024, the president announced the severing of diplomatic relations with Israel during an event at Bolivar Square in Bogota. On that occasion, he stated that humanity "cannot return to the era of genocide, of the extermination of an entire people before our eyes." He also asserted that "if Palestine dies, humanity dies, and we will not let it die.""

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