Colombia: Two political scoundrels

By: Luis Gonzales Posada - 13/08/2025

We Peruvians have known Gustavo Petro for a long time. We know he's part of the radical leftist governing platform, a space he shares with Evo Morales, Cristina Kirchner, Nicolás Maduro, López Obrador, Lula, Daniel Ortega, and Miguel Díaz-Canel, the Cuban president and first secretary of the Communist Party, some of whom are implicated in serious human rights violations and acts of corruption.

We also know that he has maliciously defamed us and intervened in matters within Peru's sovereign jurisdiction.

We do not forget when - surely under the influence of alcohol - he claimed that our police "marches like Nazis against their people" and that the trial against Pedro Castillo for the failed coup d'état "is because he is a poor and left-wing person",

adding dramatically that "I saw a man cornered by a corrupt political class"

In response to these perfidious and ignoble attacks, the Congress of the Republic declared him "persona non grata" and he is barred from entering the country.

With these statements, the former M-19 guerrilla and current president violated principles enshrined in the OAS Charter, which in its Article 19 establishes that "no State or group of States has the right to intervene, directly or indirectly, and for whatever reason, in the internal or external affairs of another State," a universal norm that is recorded in resolutions 2131 and 2625 of the United Nations General Assembly, as well as in Article 41 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which states that diplomats are obliged "not to interfere in the internal affairs" of the country where they are accredited.

Now Petro is back to his old tricks, seeking popularity. To do so, he intends to seize control of the Peruvian region of Santa Rosa, despite knowing that the Salomón Lozano Treaty (1922), the Rio Agreement (1934), and the work of the Joint Demarcation Commission (1929) have assigned that area to us.

At Petro's side, a brazen, demagogue figurehead named Daniel Quintero has emerged, placing his country's flag in Santa Rosa. In this ridiculous performance, widely disseminated by him in videos and photos, the Petro supporter figurehead stated that when he becomes president, "I will defend our sovereignty," announcing that he will close Congress and convene a Constituent Assembly.

Let's remember that this pathetic figure is being prosecuted for corruption, accused of handing over public land to private individuals. He also recently made the absurd claim that the assassination of Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay was the responsibility of coup plotters seeking to "destabilize Petro," a clumsy and unfortunate comment that has earned the condemnation of his own compatriots.

Iván Slocovich, director of the Correo de Lima newspaper, rightly called him a "clown, a poor, opportunistic scoundrel who has gone around with drones and cameras to attract attention and campaign for election."

But the show hasn't stopped: Colombian surveyors were detained by law enforcement; and the media has photographed a Colombian naval patrol and aircraft in the Peruvian zone.

The other side of Quintero's coin is former president Martín Vizcarra, currently in prison, who traveled to the district of Sana Rosa "to defend our sovereignty." Both figures are cynical and opportunistic crocodiles, part of a predatory pack capable of provoking an armed conflict and destroying the two-hundred-year relationship between two nations to get a few headlines.

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