Far from seeking to appease the harsh clash with the government of Gustavo Petro, whom he has just defined in television statements as "a murderous communist" who is sinking Colombia, Javier Milei, upped the ante this Saturday.
He did so by retweeting his economist friend, Julio Goldestein, who in turn replied to statements by Donald Trump in which the former president of the United States, in the race to be re-elected, said that Petro was "not" a good person and defined him as "a socialist" and a former member of the M 19 guerrilla.
To understand the state of the situation in which the escalation between Milei and Petro in the last few hours occurred, one can begin by reporting that just this Friday Diana Mondino's Foreign Ministry
had asked Bogotá for the style approval for Mario Verón Guerra as ambassador in Bogota.
Verón Guerra is a career ambassador, one of today's seniors, and with a stamp of radicalism.
Therefore,
despite the manifest enmity between Petro and Milei since the Libertarian campaign
, the Colombian was being distinguished for not degrading the diplomatic headquarters, while at the same time an internal gesture was made to the radical foreign ministry in times that have just restarted. his reign, PRO diplomats, such as Leonardo Sahores, and the only Libertarian in the Ministry, Federico Barttfeld.
The president seeks to leave behind his explosive campaign criticism of Pope Francis, Xi Jinping and Lula da Silva.
And it can even be said that when attacking Petro with journalist Patricia Janiot on Friday, he praised the Salvadoran Bukele and was respectful of Gabriel Boric, whom he only defined as a man of "wrong ideas."
Milei as president continues in campaign mode and in the Trump and Bolsonaro style to communicate with the world.
She is even sharper than both, as she showed at her explosive Davos Economic Forum in Switzerland, where she complained that it was a space co-opted by socialism.
The only important leader to call another murderer in recent times was
Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin,
in
days before the war in Ukraine that mourns the world now
.
But the State Department had to juggle to put the situation back together
as it does now every time the Democrat refers to China.
Thank you @realDonaldTrump always on the right side of history, because we do not come to guide lambs, but to awaken lions.
Let's go @JMilei #PetroComunistaAsesino https://t.co/Bh4ADRweoL
— Julio Goldestein🗣🇦🇷 (@jdgoldestein) January 27, 2024
The same thing is now beginning to happen to Mondino's team, as they are forced to put out fires.
Between Monday and Tuesday he will respond to the statement of repudiation issued by Petro's Foreign Ministry, for Milei's statements, which the Colombian government considered an "attack on the honor" of the Colombian president, in addition to being "disrespectful and irresponsible."
The ambassador in Buenos Aires, Camilo Romero, was called to Bogotá for consultations and it remains to be seen
when Verón Guerra's agreement will be accepted.
Petro was supported online by his followers.
The curious thing about the Colombian complaint is that Petro himself is the protagonist of these times of dysfunctional diplomacy in which anyone says anything and it is as if nothing happened.
The Colombian is offended but during the Argentine election campaign he said that Sergio Massa was the “hope” and that Milei was “barbarism.”
“Milei returns us to Pinochet and Videla.”
Nobody answered him except the fanatical tweeters of the Argentine president who usually defend him tooth and nail.
As if that were not enough, Ambassador Romero, who if everything improves he should return to Buenos Aires, to her position, told Milei on Twitter that he was a "hypocrite."
Who is going to receive him here now?
Petro's line was not very different from that of the Mexican Andrés López Obrador who compared Milei to Adolfo Hitler.
Milei is a hypocrite.
While today he asks our government for approval for his new ambassador in Colombia, he calls president @petrogustavo a murderer.
He had already attacked Lula (Brazil) and even Pope Francis.
We may think differently, but the region and the brotherhood...
— Camilo Romero (@CamiloRomero) January 26, 2024
The president reversed his accession to the BRICS that Alberto Fernández signed, and now he will not promote Argentina's participation in the dying Union of South American Nations.
Furthermore, although he is not expected to withdraw the country from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), as Bolsonaro did with Brazil at the time -Lula returned-
Milei will not go to the summit of leaders of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines , from next March 1.
And since Foreign Minister Mondino has to attend to a family matter that day that she has had for months,
the Vice Foreign Minister Leopoldo Sahores and the Undersecretary of Latin American Affairs, Mariano Vergara, will attend the summit.
That's how things are.