Trump is an accomplice to genocide. This forum is a mute witness to a genocide.” Gustavo Petro.

Trump, Gaza, and the Sword of Bolívar: Gustavo Petro’s Bold Indictment at the UN

“Trump is an accomplice to genocide. This forum is a mute witness to a genocide.”
— Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia, UN General Assembly 2025

Colombian President Gustavo Petro did what few leaders of the so-called “international community” have dared: he broke the suffocating silence. From the UN podium, his words tore through the sterile language of “conflict management” and “peace processes,” stripping away the diplomatic varnish to name what is unfolding in Gaza with unmistakable clarity — genocide.

Petro did not stop there. He declared that diplomacy had failed, words were no longer enough, and called for the creation of an international armed force of nations “that do not accept genocide.” Unlike the traditional UN peacekeeping missions paralyzed by Security Council vetoes, Petro’s proposal was radical: a moral coalition prepared to act where global institutions have collapsed into complicity.

In a fiery invocation of Latin America’s liberator, he reminded the world of Simón Bolívar’s cry: “Liberty or death.” For Petro, Gaza is not just a humanitarian tragedy — it is a test of humanity’s will to resist tyranny and empire.

This was more than a speech; it was an indictment. Not only of Trump and the United States, whose weapons and vetoes sustain Israel’s war, but of the United Nations itself — which Petro accused of being a “silent accomplice” to mass slaughter. His words resonated because they pierced the veil of neutrality, the polite silence of Western powers, and the moral cowardice of leaders who wring their hands while famine, bombardment, and mass displacement annihilate an entire people.

Petro’s boldness matters. It signals a new rupture in the global order: voices from the Global South refusing to be muted, refusing to bow to the dictatorship of Western vetoes. His call is not merely rhetorical — it is a challenge to nations to choose sides, to decide whether they will stand with genocide or with life.

History will not remember the UN’s silence with kindness. But it may remember Petro’s speech as a line drawn in the sand — the moment a leader dared to say, with Bolívar’s sword raised high: enough.

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