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The Vox group in the Cortes of Castilla y León will register, among other things, the request to the University of Salamanca to deprive the Colombian President Gustavo Petro of its Medal of Honor, the highest award of the academic institution of Salamanca. Hispanidad as a “Spanish yoke”, as the formation in a statement sent to Ical on Tuesday, in which she also accused the Colombian president of belonging to a terrorist group.
Vox recalled that last April the Usal Government Council approved the award of this award to Petro, who actually went to the Senior Schools Hall on May 5, 2023 to receive it.
Vox assured in its press release that “the current President of the Republic of Colombia has publicly acknowledged his membership in the terrorist group M-19, guilty this year of murders, rapes, kidnappings, robberies and the attack on the Colombian Palace of Justice. “In 1985, which caused 101 deaths, including eleven judges.” A past, Vox continued, “that Mr. Petro not only does not regret, but that he brags about.”
On the other hand, the conservative party pointed out that “the Congress of the Republic of Colombia has currently opened a commission of inquiry into alleged financing with money from the drug trade, intended to favor the election campaign that brought Petro to the presidency of the Republic.” of Colombia”.
Vox explains in its letter addressed to the Board of Directors of the University of Salamanca that the institution played “a key role” in the Hispanidad process “as it was the mirror in which the 32 universities in Latin America were founded under the mantle and protection of Hispanics “Monarchy”. “The example came from the University of Salamanca, from the famous forerunners of the School of Salamanca, Francisco de Vitoria and Francisco Suárez, developers of the ‘Ius Gentium’, defenders of the right to life, to private property and to freedom of thought Human dignity continued in Latin America as the cornerstone of the principles mentioned by the Rector: academic values: commitment to knowledge, creation and transmission of knowledge and service to society.
Furthermore, Vox notes that “it was the University of Salamanca itself that, with its immense work, promoted the establishment of the concept of Hispanidad; Concept that embodies the best defense of Spain’s work in Latin America and was spread to the world by its most brilliant rector, Miguel de Unamuno.”
Therefore, for the conservative formation, “that Gustavo Petro described Hispanidad as a ‘Spanish yoke or productive regime of slave owners’ means disqualifying all the wealth of the great heritage of the University of Salamanca.”