Paraguayan President Santiago Peña devoted his United Nations General Assembly speech to voicing concerns about political violence, singling out the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
“I remain shaken, saddened, and distressed by the shocking images of two cowardly and incomprehensible attacks,” he said, first paying tribute to Colombian presidential candidate Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay, who was assassinated earlier this year.
“Second, we saw a young dreamer, Charlie Kirk, who was miserably torn from his wife and two children for one sole sin: defending his convictions and values with elegance and courage. Both men, rather than resorting to violence to impose their ideas, chose the most civic and peaceful method possible, free, open, and frank debate, without evading controversial positions, yet always within a framework of respect,” Peña said.
He then criticized the “macabre” response of some who celebrated the assassinations, saying that these responses must awaken people from their “slumber of complacency.”
