A prominent socialist and former guerrilla member from Colombia gave offered an endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
According to Faithwire, CNN Español host Juan Carlos Lopez asked Gustavo Petro on Monday, “Did you endorse Joe Biden as a candidate for president of the United States?”
“Well,” Petro replied, “if I could vote, which I cannot, I’m not a citizen of the United States. But if I could vote in the United States, in the interest of my Latin-American people, I would vote for Biden, without a doubt.”
Petro formerly served as the mayor of Bogotá and had two failed presidential bids in 2010 and 2018.
American Enterprise Institute research fellow Ryan C. Berg told the Washington Free Beacon that Petro is “closely associated with the ’21st Century Socialism’ movement of Hugo Chávez and other leftist leaders in Latin America.”
Colombian-American activist Fabio Andrade did not take well to Petro’s endorsement of Biden as he found it “offensive.”
“We’re offended, it’s very simple. Knowing what we know about this terrorist, a person that has the blood of Colombians on his hands,” Andrade told the Free Beacon. “This endorsement is pathetic and very dangerous.”
Berg added that Petro’s endorsement would further add to “Trump’s rhetoric that Democrats are happy to be associated with socialists in foreign countries and thereby hurt…
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