Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro celebrated the election of socialist Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City.
Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s far-left president recently sanctioned by the United States, celebrated the election of socialist Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City — sharing pictures of his September encounter with Mamdani in New York.
Petro, who had his U.S. visa revoked for calling the U.S. military to disobey President Donald Trump as its commander in chief, said that he hopes to see New York again “someday.”
Gustavo Petro is Colombia’s first leftist President ever and a proud former member of the Marxist M19 terrorist guerrilla who, in recent months, has adopted an increasingly antagonistic stance against the United States and President Donald Trump, issuing increasingly unhinged accusations against Trump such as accusing him of “murdering” drug traffickers and calling for his arrest and “removal.”
The Colombian president spent the morning hours of Wednesday gloating over Mamdani’s electoral victory in New York in a series of brief social media posts and sharing photos of his September private encounter with Mamdani on the sidelines of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
In one such brief post, Petro wrote, “The people of New York deserve their Statue of Liberty,” a message that appears to refer to his bizarre proposal in July to relocate the statue from New York to the Colombian City of Cartagena in response to President Trump’s policies against illegal immigration. Petro justified relocating the statue to Colombia by questioning the legitimacy of America’s fight for freedom, asserting that “those who did fight for freedom were the black people who founded the first free territory in all of America, located near Cartagena [a city in Colombia].
