Colombia’s Foreign Minister Omar Bula apologized for “inappropriate and disrespectful” comments he made in 2020, when he claimed that US Democrats “thrive in illegality.”
In a letter to the Democratic Party, Bula offered his “sincere apologies for comments I made in past social posts concerning leaders of the Democratic Party.”
The foreign minister referred to comments he made between November 2020 and September 2024 in which he claimed that “the globalists and US Democrats love everything illegal” and claimed their party “had turned into crap.”
In the letter, Bula stressed that his “perspective has evolved since then, and those messages do not reflect the views I hold today. Nor do they, in any way, represent the position of the Government of Colombia under President Abelardo de la Espriella.”
I value the contributions that Democratic leaders have made to the friendship between our countries and welcome the opportunity to continue building on that work together.
Foreign Minister Omar Bula
After a stunning electoral defeat of the Republican Party, which lost control over both houses of the congress, Bula called for “mutual respect and bipartisanship” regardless of “political differences and electoral cycles.”
Starting in January, when the new Congress takes office, the Foreign Ministry will depend on the support of the Democratic majority for any type of financial aid or formal bilateral agreements.
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