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At a barbecue restaurant in Nassau County Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis served up grim warnings about “disastrous” political changes in Colombia, symbolic of advances made by totalitarian Marxists in the last quarter-century.
DeSantis told media and politicians at the Callahan Pig the weekend election results, which saw leftist Gustavo Petro prevail, were “very, very troubling” for proponents of “freedom.”
“We watched the election results in Colombia,” DeSantis said, noting Colombian Americans in Florida were “very concerned about what’s going on.”
“I think the results of that election have been very, very troubling for people that believe in freedom in the Western Hemisphere. To elect a former narco-terrorist and a Marxist to lead Colombia is going to be disastrous, and so we stood with the people here in Florida that have ties to Colombia,” DeSantis said.
“We have a great relationship with Colombia as a state. We were all hoping that the outcome would be different, but we’ve got a problem in the Western Hemisphere with Marxism and totalitarianism really spreading.”
The election is the latest in a series of setbacks in Colombia that DeSantis has identified. Late last year, he took issue with the Joe Biden Administration removing “the radically communist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) from the United States list of foreign terrorist organizations.”
“President Biden’s decision to remove the FARC from the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations will embolden terrorist groups throughout Latin America, empower narco-traffickers and pave the way for Castro-chavismo in Colombia,” DeSantis warned.
In 2019, Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez led an Enterprise Florida trade mission to Colombia, the second state trade mission of that year. A media release from the Governor’s Office noted at the time that Florida accounted for 24% of Colombia’s U.S. trade.
“We’ll continue to stand with the people of Florida here, who are passionate about freedom in the Western Hemisphere, particularly in Colombia,” DeSantis closed. “But very, very disappointing and very, very troubling result in that election.”
The concern over Colombia crosses party lines, meanwhile.
Democratic candidate for Governor Charlie Crist says while “there have been concerning, even radical ideas expressed in the past by the new President-elect and his campaign, we hope that Colombia’s new head of state will honor and hold fast to the democratic principles that culminated in yesterday’s vote. “
Florida Democratic Party Chair Manny Diaz said he is “concerned that the newly elected leader, Gustavo Petro, has in the past aligned himself with the policies of the Castros, Hugo Chavez, and Nicolas Maduro, which have brought so much pain and suffering to Cubans and Venezuelans.”
The election in Colombia of a former narco-terrorist Marxist is troubling and disappointing. The spread of left-wing totalitarian ideology in the Western Hemisphere is a growing threat. Florida stands with Colombian Americans on the side of freedom. pic.twitter.com/0O7UVccH6M
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) June 20, 2022
9 comments
meredith
June 20, 2022 at 11:20 am
Yes, and DeSantos election will confirm it.
Andrew Finn
June 20, 2022 at 2:47 pm
Emperor DeSantis says that Marxism and totalitarianism are expanding ?? Well, he should know. He’s expanded it all over Florida in the last few years.
tom palmer
June 20, 2022 at 6:09 pm
Why allow those Colombians to vote it they won’t vote for the “right” candidate. Sounds ;the GOP playbook. What a blowhard.,
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Robert Sell
June 29, 2022 at 6:51 pm
DeSantis has his own version of totalitarianism going on in Florida..
Anthony Del Grosso
July 1, 2022 at 12:06 pm
This, coming from Ron DeSantis. A man who simultaneously believes in “small government” but also wants to put cameras in classrooms, ban books, attack lgbtq people with laws that ban their existence on school grounds, and has essentially banned abortion. Because none of that is authoritarianism? Columbia democratically elected this man, look at the United States actions in South America, we have overthrown governments and installed right wing fascist dictators. Look at the history of Chile. DeSantis is a zealot and needs to be removed from power.
Tjb
July 3, 2022 at 3:23 pm
We got a problem in Florida Governor DeSantis and it is not Marxism. What are you doing to fix the problem of adnormally high home insurance rates that Florida homeowners are contending with?
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July 3, 2022 at 9:05 pm
And they see American men sexing their children
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