A call to the Colombian business community in general, to change their negative tone regarding the reforms that the country needs and the current government, made Cecilia López Montaño, former Minister of Agriculturewho in an interview this Sunday with EL TIEMPO said that these “They have to start being aware that we are in a left-wing government”.
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The former official of the Agro portfolio in the country, said that more than regretting, this is the moment for a fundamental change and assured that It gave him great peace of mind to read in EL TIEMPO that businessmen say that you have to work in harmony with the Government. “That seems to me a very positive step and I hope that the Government understands that it cannot carry out its project alone.”
However, he stressed that: “Businessmen cannot continue in the negative vein. I think they were wrong. The Colombian establishment made a mistake in the first months of the government because they were very negative and they forced the President to become radicalized and he feels cornered and that cannot be.”
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And he added that a president cannot be cornered, because a leader with a personality as strong as Petro’s would react like that and that does not suit him, his project or the country.
“Businessmen have to begin to be aware that we are in a left-wing government. What is inconceivable is that Colombia is an upper middle income country and has these levels of poverty and inequality. And that was the product of governments that were not progressive or not progressive enough. Then we got an opportunity to do something different. Let’s take advantage of it, but let’s do it without killing ourselves. Everyone has to review her speech, “insisted the former official.
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He also believes that it is time to split the Government in two and start in a different way.
He commented in the same interview that the President’s speech seemed too harsh to him, but also that he thought it terrible that Congress is looking to see who is more aggressive.
“I am terrified as a former senator of how (Congress) is working. Without detracting from the market places, the Congress seems to me a market place. Dignity was lost, they insult each other. One goes and it’s a mess. That cannot be the line of Colombia, whose fight is more. It takes zero offense from side to side. We need the government to work in harmony with everyone and there are no insults, ”she pointed out.
