Pedro Sánchez and Gustavo Petro, a meeting under Simón Bolívar but without his sword

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It was impossible for the majority not to crack a smile.

Including

himself , after he was introduced as the president of the "Republic of Spain".

A lapse that

, president of

, tried to correct, repeating in one go up to more than five times "Kingdom of Spain" in his first speech.

Petro and Sánchez held a bilateral meeting and appeared in the

of the

.

A staging different from the one Sánchez experienced on his last visit, in 2018, received by the then president

.

The Casa de Nariño is the presidential palace, formerly called the

, it also receives the name Casa de Nariño in homage to

, the translator of the rights of man, who was its former inhabitant.

The Colombian government decided that Sánchez and Petro would appear before the media in the Simón Bolívar room, under a large portrait of the ruling symbol of Spanish anti-colonialism.

Meeting between Pedro Sánchez and Iván Duque at the Casa de Nariño in 2018.RAUL ARBOLEDAAFP

The staging took place only a couple of weeks after the controversy that arose over Petro's decision to bring Bolivar's sword into the scene during his inauguration and the fact that the images revealed that

, who attended the act on behalf of Spain, did not get up.

A position that provoked harsh criticism from

.

During Sánchez's visit to Colombia, Bolivar's sword has not occupied minutes or attention.

It remains exposed in the Casa de Nariño, but it did not have minutes of prominence.

Yes, the great picture of the military and politician.

Although Sánchez is the first great leader to visit Petro after his inauguration, he had a meeting with Chilean President

after it , but not in the same room in which he received Sánchez nor under the Bolivar's look.

Sánchez's appearance, in which he took the opportunity to support the government's strategy of toughening up the discourse against the PP, accused

of making a "negative opposition" and "lacking a sense of State", also caused more than one smile by some of Petro's answers, commented on for their long duration.

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