The Colombian authorities manipulated a video to change the applause acquired by President Gustavo Petro acquired throughout his speech on the United Nations Basic Meeting in New York
ByLEÓN RAMÍREZ Related Press
September 22, 2023, 6:39 PM
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro Urrego addresses the 78th session of the United Nations Basic Meeting, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. (AP Picture/Richard Drew)
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MEXICO CITY — The Colombian authorities manipulated a video to change the applause acquired by President Gustavo Petro throughout his speech on the United Nations Basic Meeting in New York.
The Related Press reviewed the video and was in a position to confirm that it was altered. The recording launched by the presidential workplace integrated applause for U.S. President Joe Biden, who spoke moments earlier than Petro, making it seem the applause was directed on the Colombian chief.
The manipulation was first reported by the Colombian web site La Silla Vacía.
The presidential workplace was requested for remark by AP however had not responded by late Friday afternoon.
Though Petro did obtain applause, the ultimate clip of the video posted Thursday on the federal government’s YouTube channel doesn’t correspond to what was broadcast within the U.N. video. It incorporates a unique shot to the unique broadcast and to what was broadcast within the media, making it appear that many extra attendees applauded Petro on the finish of his speech.
The recording raised doubts amongst social media customers and the media, given that there have been a number of empty seats within the Basic Meeting throughout Petro’s speech.
At 1:52:39 of the official U.N. broadcast, the identical applause that the Colombian authorities video exhibits going to Petro is heard however it’s on the finish of Biden’s his deal with.
The U.N. video additionally exhibits that three males within the seventh row rise up on the identical time and {that a} lady walks in direction of the rostrum between the seats, the identical scene that seems within the video launched by Colombia’s presidential workplace.
AP photographer Richard Drew captured the second of Petro’s speech in a photograph and exhibits that within the seventh row there have been solely folks sitting in three of the 12 seats. Within the edited video launched by the Colombian authorities, all these seats look to be occupied.
This yr’s annual assembly of the U.N. Basic Meeting introduced collectively heads of state and authorities from a minimum of 145 nations, together with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy