The country is facing new political tension after the broadcast of the press report by Caracol News The night of November 23, 2025. The content of the report revealed files seized from dissident members of the Central General Staff (EMC) of dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and opened a discussion about possible links between state officials and this criminal structure.
Amid the controversy, President Gustavo Petro posted an extensive message on his social media account
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Petro explained his position in detail, and stressed that his personal review of the events contradicted the American agents’ narrative. The President emphasized that the information he received at that time was not supported and that the verification he conducted himself made it possible to exclude the hypothesis put forward by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
He said in his message: “I investigated what happened and determined that the CIA’s belief was inaccurate.”. This phrase served as the focal point of his public explanation and gave way to a broader description of the way he interprets agency reports.
The President noted that in the news bulletin in which the information was revealed, he used sources that, he said, had previously caused confusion on other occasions. He wrote in his letter: “Caracol has already made several ‘mistakes’ of this magnitude, and has corrected some of them. They always have the same source for a journalist whom they consider to be very dangerous. The journalist’s source is the CIA, which has a habit of creating networks to influence public opinion according to the interests of their country’s government around the world. It is a way of projecting foreign power within countries.”
With this statement, Petro justified his decision to conduct an independent analysis of the intelligence reports provided by American officials. According to his account, agents informed him of General Huertas’s alleged links to an armed group, although under different circumstances than those revealed by the media mentioned above.
The president stressed that the American officials’ hypothesis was baseless when he investigated what happened. He included this statement in his explanation: “They told me about General Huertas, who was not in the army, and mentioned a possible connection with an armed group, but they mentioned another group different from the one that exists today; that is why I know the new report is false.”.
Petro indicated that his direct inspection allowed him to confirm the failure of an operation against the National Liberation Army due to the presence of a helicopter that alerted the illegal group.
“This was an operation against the ELN, which was sabotaged at the time of the execution by the presence of a helicopter at the scene that alerted the armed group. My investigation into the events concluded that the helicopter belonged to the police and not the army, which General Huertas had nothing to do with,” he said in his letter. He then added that the reports regarding Huertas were baseless and highlighted the following: “They’re fooling the CIA too.”.
The President linked the situation to what he described as a corrupt structure within sectors of the public force: “The high level of corruption in the country as a result of drug trafficking means the presence of criminal gangs in the army led by high-ranking officers. They use intelligence, polygraphs and intelligence reports that turn out to be false to unfairly remove high-ranking officers who pose a threat to their careers or who are not complicit in their criminal activities.”
“Today the CIA has reasons to attack and discredit my government, and the orders come from your government. I did not want to take it out of the country, waiting for the Trump government to react and realizing that the reports it was receiving were coming from the same drug trafficking group seeking to sever ties. Drug traffickers and senior leaders of the North American government are unanimous in their intention to overthrow the government. mail.
The president’s explanation came after he himself responded to the accusations against Huertas and Wilmer Mejia, referred to in the television report as alleged collaborators with the dissidents.
In that previous post, Petro stated: “I can confirm that the supposed intelligence reporting versions about Huertas and Wilmer are false. It is about the desire to purge people who helped me identify corrupt army officers.”
He added that several corruption cases have now been uncovered thanks to the work of the accused, and said: “My government has been suspended and that is why they are reacting. There are billions of pesos in bribes that have been suspended to stop the use of the state for paramilitary purposes.”