On the eve of the celebration of Dia de las Felitas, a traditional date (December 7) that officially marks the beginning of the Christmas season in Colombia, former President Álvaro Uribe Velez woke up early on Saturday, December 6 to warn via a message on social networks that his party (Democratic Center) would restore the health system.
In the post left at 6:00 a.m. on his X account, Uribe He wondered, in addition to how President Gustavo Petro (according to the former president himself) destroyed what remained when Ivan Duque gave way to the administration of the current head of state.
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Former President Uribe explained in his post that he would be with one of his party’s candidates, or even with another candidate and coalition, the way to win the 2026 elections.
“Restoring health. We are committed as a democratic center party, together with the government of one of our governments or our allies, to recovery and improving health.”The letter begins from a former Antiochian senator.
In the second part of his post, former President Uribe referred to a specific name as the challenger to be defeated, and warned: “Cepeda will end what Petro has already done,” referring to candidate and also senator Ivan Cepeda (Historical Alliance coalition).
Accordingly, and in the words of the leader who will form his party’s list that will seek to win the largest number of seats in the Senate of the Republic, “The biggest victims of the destruction of health are the 48 million Colombians who cannot afford private health insurance policies. The 4.4 million who have economic means have purchased health insurance policies.”
Continuing this last part of his letter, Uribe Velez concluded by saying: “The rest of our citizens who cannot make this purchase are suffering from the destruction of the health of the shale oil movement.”
Senator Paloma Valencia, a member of the Democratic Center Party, faced reactions after a debate session in the Congress of the Republic in which she exchanged conversations with Senator Ivan Cepeda on Wednesday, December 3.
As a result of the above, political activist Carol Solis Minco responded to Valencia for the way she addressed her exchange of words with Cepeda in a video she shared on her X account.
During the parliamentary session, Valencia and Cepeda, known for their opposing positions, exchanged arguments over human rights complaints and links with illegal armed structures.Amid scandal report caracol news, Which were called alias files Calarcá.
The most tense moment occurred when the senator used expressions that actors outside the company found offensive.
In the face of this situation, activist W Influencer Barranquilla expressed the arrival of the congresswoman’s behavior ‘Disgusting level of vileness’.
Solís also noted that “verbal attacks and defamation cannot be allowed to be normalized from the benches,” and called for greater responsibility in the use of rhetoric by Colombian parliamentarians.
Senator Valencia defended her position by saying that she is very responsive when it comes to sensitive issues for the country. He also stated that he never offends and that his intervention aims to contribute to the national debate on truth and justice, stressing the right to respond to what he considers to be baseless accusations.
For his part, Cepeda continued his rhetoric regarding complaints regarding possible human rights violations and reiterated the need to continue parliamentary debate within institutional channels.
“If I were Paloma Valencia, I would be more concerned about her boss’s brother who organized paramilitary groups on the family farm and who, according to the justice system, had blacklists and ordered people to be killed.”The content creator begins her response with a comment in which she refers to Santiago Uribe, brother of former President Álvaro Uribe Velez (leader of the Democratic Center).
The legislator of the historic charter called for mutual respect as a basis for democratic practice in Congress.
The incident resonated with public opinion with messages of support and rejection for both Valencia and Cepeda.
“Cepeda can be questioned about many things, but he cannot be charged with murder. This ignores the fact that his life was marked by the murder of his father (Manuel Cepeda Vargas) at the hands of the state.” Solís, who also indicated his opposition to the departure of former candidate Miguel Uribe Londoño (from the same political party in Valencia, Democratic Center), said that his entire political career has been denouncing violence, defending human rights, and negotiating peace processes, whether one agrees with those processes or not.