A little more than 24 hours after handing over the Presidency of the Republic, here we recall some of the phrases left by the president and that caused all kinds of comments at the time.
“That’s how I wanted it”, for example, was a phrase that Duque left after the death of former Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo. The outgoing president confused the word ‘I wanted’ with ‘I wanted’.
True to an attempt to be scathing, Duque launched with some phrases in which he wanted to be insightfulbut in which he ended up making jokes inappropriate for the context.
“Alias ’Guacho’ ran out of guachafita,” he said while he was next to the military leadership when announcing the discharge of that criminal leader of a faction of the Farc dissidents.
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“What are you talking about, old man?”, was a question that Duque asked a journalist while he found out by bombing that the Army had allegedly done in civilian areas.
The confrontational tone also characterized some speeches of the President. From there they come off other phrases that, over time, did not leave him well stopped.
“The dictatorship of Venezuela has very few hours left,” Duque said in 2019. This phrase has been used by his critics in recent days, taking into account that, literally, the one who has few hours left in power is him .
“The day one has to die, one dies,” said Duque in a strong tone towards the death threats he received at the time. Although he wanted to be rude, he said nothing more than the obvious.