He Former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez traveled to the United States in parallel with his current successor, Gustavo Petro, where he has participated in various events at the invitation of the Adam Smith Center, who has been promoting democracy and the free market in higher education institutions for two years, however, in one of them he was booed.
The stressful moment it happened in the Freedom Matters (Freedom matters), in which the former head of state shared a panel with former Chilean president Eduardo Frei.
“Uribe paramilitary, ‘paraco’. Total repudiation of this horrible figure.” an assistant yelled at him, who by his accent would be a Colombian citizen.
after the fact, the attendees silenced the man’s voice with anti-communist harangues, followed by voices of the former Colombian president’s supporters in your support.
Nevertheless, Uribe requested that they allow him to debate with his hot-headed opponent, an option that the ex-president usually resorts to in this type of situation. which have become frequent for him.
“Why don’t you let him argue with me? I’m sorry, but there is a lot of cowardice, they don’t have arguments, they are cowards, they don’t allow discussion, they just ‘macartize’. Invite them to discuss with me. I have a class right away and I will be very happy that you are there so as not to interrupt this act, ”she said.
Then Uribe recalled that they have recently rebuked him in public, but, according to him, they do not have the capacity to refute it. They immediately told him that the man did not want to return to hold that debate, so the former president insisted that they invite him.
“The thing is They have caught a little vice, stimulated by the extremism of the left in Colombia (…) That of insulting, mistreating, slandering, not debating and ignoring the facts. Everywhere I challenge you to discuss with me and allude to the discussion”, was his reaction that was recorded in a video that was released on the Twitter account of the Liberty Plus Foundation, the other entity that organized the event.
Apart from this embarrassing fact, the former president held a meeting with the Cuban community in exile in the United States, where he recorded a video in a small exchange of ideas with a Venezuelan doctor and two others from the island country.
“There is a lack of resources, a lack of education, a lack of medicine. There basically everything is for those who have a little and the rest of the town stayed there. The universality that they present to us does not exist, it is not something even, we have nothing,” replied one of the Cubans when the former president asked her about the health system in the island country.
