On Sunday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused US Senator Bernie Moreno, Republican of Ohio, of “forging” a plan with the US authorities to imprison him.
He said on his social media account, “This plan was hatched by Bernie Moreno (…) posing as a drug dealer.”
The President emphasized that among his goals was “to arrest him”, even though, as he defended, “he is not involved in any crime, and when I have devoted a decade of my parliamentary life and eight years of my life as governor, to discover in the correct names the links that unite traditional political power in Colombia with drug trafficking.” He considered that “this has become a national security problem.”
Petro also lamented that the Colombian left was a victim of drug trafficking “allied with the traditional political power” of the Latin American country, and warned that “now the same allies of drug trafficking want to rewrite history.” “The people of Colombia will not leave them,” he stressed.
Furthermore, he accused the “far-right” of seeking to “destroy” the country’s current government “because it is simply progressive and inconsistent with the paramilitary drug rule that my country has witnessed and which I have denounced.” “What they seek is to make Latin America an obedient servant of a government that does not respect the rules of sovereignty and democracy,” he said, referring to Washington.
Petro made the remarks after Colombian magazine Cambio revealed the Donald Trump administration’s alleged strategy to punish and eventually imprison him, referring to a photo taken by a reporter at the White House.
According to the publication and local media outlets such as W Radio and Caracol Station, Senators Lindsey Graham and Mike Lee will appear in the photo, in addition to the Director of the Presidential Office of Legislative Affairs, James Breed, and Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair, one of the advisors in Trump’s recent election campaign, who was carrying a blue file with a picture of the Colombian President and his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Maduro, both wearing orange. Uniforms of prisoners in the United States. united.
Petro confirmed that they “became convinced of Bernie Moreno’s story (…) and believed that Venezuela financed my campaign, when it was examined in depth by the same dominant right in the electoral establishment for three consecutive years.”
He denounced that “the President of the United States’ acceptance of this type of ‘fake news’ among his advisors demonstrates a complete lack of respect for the Colombian people, and the deaths that have occurred over half a century and which include hundreds of thousands of our citizens killed by an anti-drug strategy based on political and military control in the country and ineffective in reducing cocaine consumption in the United States.”
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