Reporter, President Gustavo "Tavo" Barros and others in “Unfinished Business”

I'm curious if your thinking has changed or if you regret starting a war with the United States.

We didn't start this war.

You sank a US fleet in Mayport on the very day that your loyalists murder the duly-elected leader of Panama. That sounds textbook.

Barros

Mayport wasn't an attack, nor was it the beginning. You're young, but smart enough to know the US's history of murder and political insurrection in Latin America. Guatemala '54, Cuba '61, D.R. '65, Chile '73, Nicaragua '82, Grenada '83. This war is a battle for the survival of the people of Gran Colombia.

So, is this your justification for the forced conscription, the purges, the death squads?

Barros

Where do you get this information from?

Several accounts from defectors...

Barros

Defectors from what? Our borders are not closed. People are free to come and go as they wish.

Their accounts are remarkably consistent.

Barros

This isn't a war of public opinion. This is about taking a fresh look at the world... Post-virus, post-famine. It's about adjusting the balance. United States have been bullies for too long. This movement is a rebirth. Take your camera and your notepad and go to the countryside. Go to the cities of Central and South America and see the pride in people's faces. Freedom from tyranny is what they demanded. And it's what I'm giving them. And I'm inviting the people of all of the Americas to join.