Published On 10/6/2026
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Outgoing Colombian President Gustavo Petro likened the current military practices in the Gaza Strip and the Middle East to the “Nazi era,” warning before the UN Security Council that the continuation of wars and climate change, and the control of limited monopoly powers over artificial intelligence technologies, are pushing humanity towards barbarism and annihilation.
Petro called for the formulation of an urgent international agreement to impose global control on technology and protect the rights of migrants.
In the context of his talk about global security, the Colombian president pointed out that competition for oil and greed for wealth is what is raining missiles on the heads of civilians and children at the present time, stressing that the killing of tens of thousands in Gaza are clear facts that no political interest can hide.
Petro added: “We are returning to the era of the Nazis, and this is what happened to us today, and this has expanded across the world and not just in Gaza,” considering that the Gaza Strip represents the cultural and political source of the current war in the Middle East, which is fueled by the accumulation of nuclear weapons and circumvention of international plans aimed at abandoning carbon consumption.
Monopolizing artificial intelligence and spreading lies
The international community also warned of a dangerous technological front, explaining that the new information and communications technology sector has become confined to the hands of a small and powerful elite group in the United States and China, which has led to the spread of misleading information and falsification of facts across social media platforms and the transformation of lies into a convincing reality for the masses.
The Colombian president called for the imposition of global governance and general control over artificial intelligence through an international agreement governed by international law, noting that this technology cannot be left to the management of five individuals who move it according to material and monopolistic interests, and citing the position of the Vatican and the Pope calling for regulating this sector to ensure societal peace and avoid the collapse of human communication.
The climate crisis and fascist rhetoric against immigrants
The President of Colombia linked climate change to political unrest, based on scientific reports warning of the drying up of water sources in large areas of the world by 2050, which will force about three billion people to be displaced and search for water sources, which threatens the extinction of humanity within a century or two at most.
Petro strongly denounced the spread of racist and barbaric anti-immigration policies in Europe and the world, describing proposals that blame immigrants for individual crimes as a “Nazi criminal theory” that brings to mind the methods used by Hitler and Goebbels in Nazi Germany to justify the extermination of entire groups based on individual actions, such as the incident of the German Parliament (Reichstag) fire.
Petro concluded his speech, which was likely to be his last in this international forum, with a call to save the prestige of international law, stressing that dialogue between civilizations, respect for science, decarbonization, and control of technology are the only keys to preventing the world from falling into an era of comprehensive barbarism.
