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"I confess that I like Walt Withman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller. I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, in US history, are memorable and I follow them. They were assassinated by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are inside the USA as inside my country."

"I don't like your oil, Trump, it's going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe someday, over a shot of Whisky which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it is difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I am not, nor any Colombian."

"So if you know someone stubborn, that's me, period. You can with your economic strength and your arrogance try to stage a coup d'état as they did with Allende. But I die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I do not want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are freedom lovers. If you cannot accompany me, I will go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you did not understand it, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aurelianos Buendia, of which I am one of them, perhaps the last one."

"You will kill me, but I will survive in my people before yours, in the Americas. We are people of the winds, the mountains, of the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.

"You don't like our freedom, okay. I do not shake hands with white slavers. I shake the hands of the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and of the black and white peasant boys of the USA, before whose graves I wept and prayed on a battlefield, to which I arrived, after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after saving myself from the covid."

"They are the USA and before them I kneel, before no one else. Lay me down president and the Americas and humanity will answer. Colombia now stops looking north, look at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization at that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, the democracy in Athens; our blood has the resistant blacks turned into slaves by you."

"In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take shelter in its African songs. My land is of gold work existing in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs, and of the first artists of the world in Chiribiquete. You will never dominate us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom and who is called Bolivar, opposes us."

"Our peoples are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naïve and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, present-day Panama, formerly Colombia, which you assassinated."

"I raise a flag and as Gaitan said, even if I remain alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, immigrant in the USA. Your blockade does not scare me; because Colombia besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and it will offer you its sweetness."

"COLOMBIA FROM NOW ON IS OPEN TO THE WHOLE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY. I am informed that you put a 50% tariff on our fruit of human labor to enter the U.S., I do the same. Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world."