{"id":496653,"date":"2026-01-03T20:17:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/plata-o-plomo-musk-offers-petro-the-pablo-escobar-deal-and-he-responds\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:17:22","slug":"plata-o-plomo-musk-offers-petro-the-pablo-escobar-deal-and-he-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/international\/plata-o-plomo-musk-offers-petro-the-pablo-escobar-deal-and-he-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"\"\u00bfPlata o plomo?\": Musk offers Petro the Pablo Escobar deal and he responds"},"content":{"rendered":"The American billionaire Elon Musk made an offer to the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, associated with the deceased Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, and the president responded.\n\n\n<p>Faced with a publication made by Petro on the social network X, in which he spoke about the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad-rt.com\/actualidad\/580063-caracas-nombra-localidades-atacadas-washington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aggression<\/a>&nbsp;of the US to Venezuela, Musk commented with the well-known phrase linked to Escobar:&nbsp;<strong>\"Money or lead?\"<\/strong>; which he accompanied with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/actualidad\/580247-maduro-trump-venezuela\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">photograph<\/a>&nbsp;published by the White House of the president of Venezuela, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, captured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/La CIA ten\u00eda informantes dentro del Gobierno venezolano que filtraban datos sobre Maduro\">http:\/\/La CIA ten\u00eda informantes dentro del Gobierno venezolano que filtraban datos sobre Maduro<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe phrase symbolizes Escobar's violent and coercive approach to drug trafficking, which refers to accepting bribes or facing death.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Se\u00f1or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@elonmusk<\/a> eso no contesta mi pregunta. No doy plomo ni tengo plata. Ni pido.<br><br>He sido elegido para hacer justicia a mi pueblo, he logrado muchas cosas y es mi pueblo el que decide si me defiende o no.<br><br>Ni plata ni plomo amigo, amor y Libertad es lo que hace que podamos\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dYuuSXBAK0\">https:\/\/t.co\/dYuuSXBAK0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petrogustavo\/status\/2007569114441687518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 3, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nIn response, Petro replied: \"Neither silver nor lead, my friend, <strong>love and freedom<\/strong> is what allows us to have a better humanity [...] Neither silver nor lead. Love and freedom for all human beings, without distinction.\"\n\nIn his publication, the president reiterates that he doesn't give \"lead\" nor does he have or ask for \"silver\". \"I have been elected to do justice to my people, I have achieved many things and&nbsp;<strong>it is my people who decide whether to defend me or not<\/strong>\", he emphasized.\n\n\"I already told you that if the private capital spaceships explode and NASA's don't, it's because the effort to leave the planet is not to escape, but to irrigate the universe with life and that is done not with one person or capital, however large, but with all of humanity, of all colors, including yours. But only the human brain in a network can achieve what you dream of as an individual,\" Petro added.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American billionaire Elon Musk made an offer to the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, associated with the deceased Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, and the president responded. Faced with a publication made by Petro on the social network X, in which he spoke about the&nbsp;aggression&nbsp;of the US to Venezuela, Musk commented with the well-known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":496655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[42753,14609,40230],"class_list":{"0":"post-496653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"tag-elon-musck","9":"tag-petro","10":"tag-united-states"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/6959a123e9ff71332411c309.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/6959a123e9ff71332411c309.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}