He’s Bill de Bogotá.
Aging hipster former Mayor Bill de Blasio recently gallivanted down to Colombia with his terminally online new girlfriend and an alleged Chinese Community Party-linked lefty group to denounce American imperialism, The Post has learned.
The under-the-radar trip in January saw de Blasio join an “emergency” conference — Nuestra América — to defend democracy and peace in the Americas after the controversial US capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro that month.
The ex-Hizzoner’s far-left trek drew disbelief and derision from many New York City political insiders, particularly because de Blasio jetted off along with Code Pink — an anti-war group bedeviled by accusations of ties to Beijing, sources said.
“It’s not that Bill de Blasio does not know Code Pink is a CCP front group, it’s that he is so desperate for relevance and validation that he does not care,” a Democratic operative scoffed.
“It’s really bottom-barrel stuff that he has to pal around with a bunch of anti-American nuts no one actually takes seriously.”
The leftist summit was organized by Progressive International, an umbrella group that aspires to “eradicate capitalism everywhere” and includes Code Pink as one of its member organizations.
Code Pink, founded as an anti-war group in 2002 ahead of the eventual US invasion of Iraq, is infamous for its colorful, disruptive protest stunts — such as members showing up clad in KKK costumes to antagonize President Trump’s first-term Attorney General Jeff Sessions in 2017.
But the group has increasingly been under fire as socialist billionaire Neville Roy Singham, who married its co-founder Jodie Evans, became its benefactor.
The China-loving Singham’s cash helps fund what a 2023 New York Times exposé cast as a extensive pro-Beijing propaganda apparatus stretching into American nonprofits.
The Code Pink organization — once a critic of China — has become so much of an apologist for the communist regime that its website sports a page titled “China is not our enemy.”
President Trump’s State Department has identified Code Pink and the so-called “Signham network” as vectors of Chinese propaganda.
The group denies being funded by China.
“To state it very clearly: CODEPINK is in no way funded by China, nor any other foreign government or agency,” its site contends. “We are funded primarily by donations from concerned citizens that support peace over war.”
Code Pink members, with de Blasio in tow, traveled to the conference in Bogotá.
The meeting of 90 delegates from 20 countries adopted the San Carlos Declaration against a Trump-driven “Donroe Doctrine” calling for US preeminence in the Americas.
De Blasio’s girlfriend, South Tucson Mayor Roxanna Valenzuela, breathlessly documented the trip in a spate of sunny social media posts on her very active Instagram account.
Valenzuela’s snaps feature her apparently giving a middle finger to a “RIP Monroe Doctrine” effigy, posing with a smiling de Blasio and Colombian politician María José Pizarro Rodríguez, meeting with the country’s president Gustavo Petro and scenic vacation-style pics.
“It was a privilege to connect with delegates from across the globe, all united in supporting Latin American sovereignty,” she wrote. “Beyond the vital work, I’ve made friendships that will last a lifetime.”
De Blasio, Valenzuela and Code Pink didn’t return Post requests for comment Friday.
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