Speeches by the Vice President

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What Gustavo Petro did by giving the microphone to Dilan Cruz's mother in his great moment of victory ‒when all the cameras were waiting to hear him‒ means a change of priorities in the use of the word in the public sphere. It means that when those at the bottom speak, when the victims speak, those in power must shut up and listen. the national sancocho So the new government, popular and from the left, has been the result not only of accumulated struggles and a crisis of the old regime of exclusion, but also of important transformations in common sense.

The natural question now is what will be their real margin of action and how far will the transformations go. Well then, we should start by recognizing that despite the fact that one day he C Level Contact List a member of a revolutionary guerrilla and took up arms against the State, it is difficult to find a less sectarian political leader in Colombia than Gustavo Petro, more willing to talk even with his adversaries. more staunch Or I correct: this may happen precisely because he was a member of a particular guerrilla group, the M-19, and not only participated in a peace process that triggered the National Constituent Assembly of 1991, and closely accompanied Commander Carlos Pizarro in his passionate defense of daring and imagination to transform Colombia, but always had the idea of ​​the "national sancocho" as a reference.



The concept is by Jaime Bateman Cayón, co-founder and commander of the M-19 until the morning of 1983 when the plane in which he was traveling to Panama crashed in the Darien jungle. He was a Caribbean man, festive, spontaneous, and for this reason, to sum up the need for a great national dialogue in which old adversaries, different ideologies and political currents were understood for the good of the country, he appealed to the name of the most popular of soups. colombian In this 2022 campaign, even more than in 2018, Petro constantly called on all political actors, even from the right and extreme right, to join a great pact for social justice in Colombia.