Ep. 163: What’s Happening in Colombia?

The Liz Wheeler Show

Blaze Media

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.8 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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A radical leftist movement is sweeping through Latin America, and it just landed in Colombia as they elect an actual communist as president. Not only does this throw up major red flags about Joe Biden’s "mumble and carry no stick" foreign policy, but it also exhibits symptoms of a much deeper rot even here in the United States. What role do we, as a nation, want to play in the world? Plus, celebrities are proven frauds once again as Liz’s predictions about Dr. Oz come true, and Megan Rapinoe abandons what made her successful in the first place in favor of a radical ideology. This is The Liz Wheeler Show. -- Beam is a functional wellness brand that makes products for sleep, calm, focus, energy, hydration, and recovery. Get $20 off when you go to https://beamorganics.com/LIZ and use code LIZ at checkout. -- Take your personal data off the market with Incogni. The first 100 people to use the code LIZWHEELER at the link below will get 20% off of Incogni: https://incogni.com/lizwheeler. -- Cozy Earth provides the softest, most luxurious sheets on the planet. Save 35% on Cozy Earth bamboo bedding at https://cozyearth.com/liz35. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, nobody's really paying attention to this in the United States.
0:03.0	Full disclosure, I honestly wasn't paying attention to this either until I was, but there
0:07.4	is a radical leftist movement that is sweeping through Latin America right now.
0:12.0	They just had presidential elections in Colombia and they elected a communist.
0:16.5	So far left.
0:17.5	And I'm not just talking about communists in the pejorative way that we use that term to
0:22.4	basically associate anyone on the left with communist or Marxist principles, even if they
0:25.8	don't officially identify like that.
0:27.8	No, no, this guy, Gustavo Petro, is an actual communist.
0:30.6	He was a part of a terror group, a communist terror group called M19.
0:36.0	He's a narco terrorist, really.
0:38.0	And he ran a campaign against a populist and they ran on this backdrop in Colombia, this
0:45.7	backdrop of economic devastation caused essentially by government policies about COVID-19, lockdowns
0:52.1	and disrupted supply chains and exactly what we're dealing with here in the United States.
0:56.6	That was the backdrop and they both ran addressing people, the populations concerns about jobs
1:01.7	and healthcare and poverty and this downturn in the economy.
1:06.0	The interesting part was Gustavo Petro ran as with an openly communist platform.
1:12.0	He said he wanted to run on redistribution of wealth.
1:15.1	He ran on not oil.
1:17.6	He said he doesn't want to be an oil rich country.
1:19.7	He wants to run on climate change.
1:21.4	And his opponent who he defeated ran on this platform of populism saying, I'm going to
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