The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has questioned this Monday the role of the Organization of American States (OAS) in the political crisis that has ended up hitting Brazilian democracy with the assault of Bolsonarism to the Three Powers Square by asserting that «it has lost its way».
«The strategy of the Latin American extreme right does not go through democracy. It promotes trials without the existence of a crime to eliminate leaderships, parliamentary coups against elected leaders and violent coups with hundreds of deaths,» Petro wrote on Twitter.
Petro’s criticisms of the OAS are similar to those already expressed by other leaders of the region at other times when the role of this organization was questioned, as well as that of its secretary general, Luis Almagro, as in the Bolivian political crisis of 2019.
Petro has also called for a review of the American Convention on Human Rights in order to be strengthened to counteract this type of episodes such as those being experienced in Brazil.
«It must be empowered and extended to women’s, environmental and collective rights. This treaty must acquire more judicial instruments of democratic action», he has expressed in the aforementioned social network.
Finally, Petro recalled the «bloody» history of «Latin American fascism» in the continent, responsible for «military coups, millions of exiles and tens of thousands of disappeared people», for which he proposed «a great pact for democracy in the Americas with courts and capacity for action».
Thousands of followers of the former president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro have assaulted this Sunday the headquarters of the National Congress, the Planalto Palace and the Supreme Court in Brasilia, after several months of mobilizations and violent protests due to their discontent with the triumph at the polls of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
As a consequence of these attacks, President Lula has decreed the federal intervention of Brasília to assume security competences, stressing that the «fascist vandals» who caused the chaos will be «persecuted» and «punished».
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
