Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro explains why four children were able to survive 40 days in the rainforest, wonders about Germany’s hunger for coal and calls for a more liberal cocaine policy.
The interview is scheduled from 4 to 4.30 p.m., Gustavo Petro comes at 4.27 p.m. But Colombia’s president then takes a lot of time – and puts up with delays in the follow-up appointments. It is important to him “to also talk to the people,” he told the SZ journalists in the Hotel Adlon. What is immediately noticeable: Petro speaks even quieter than Olaf Scholz. But before he can be asked about scandals in his government and the major protests at home, the former guerrilla fighter moves on. It suits him to be out of the country for a few days. The global south and thus also Colombia is being courted by the chancellor, and they also want to push back the influence of China and Russia in South America.