Colombian President Gustavo Petro this Sunday accused Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) of cooperating with U.S. authorities and “fabricating” a plan to imprison him.
“This plan was masterminded by Bernie Moreno, who posed as a drug trafficker,” he said on his social network account.
The president declared that among his objectives was “to make an arrest,” despite the fact that, in his own defense, he was not involved in any crime and that he “dedicated ten years of his parliamentary life and eight years as a ruler to discovering, with proper name, the links linking Colombia’s traditional political power and drug trafficking.” “This has become a national security issue,” he mused.
Petro also lamented that Colombian leftists are victims of drug trafficking “allied with traditional political powers” in the Latin American country, warning that “now those same drug trafficking allies are trying to rewrite history.” “The Colombian people will not leave them,” he asserted.
He also accused the “far right” of trying to “destroy” the country’s current government “simply because they are progressive and do not agree with the narco-paramilitary rule that our country has experienced and that I have condemned.” “What they want is the homogenization of Latin America into obedient servants of governments that do not respect sovereignty and the rules of democracy,” he said, referring to Washington.
Petro made the remarks after the Colombian magazine Cambio exposed President Donald Trump’s administration’s alleged strategy to sanction and eventually jail Petro, alluding to a photo taken by a reporter at the White House.
According to publications, W Radio, Caracol and other local media outlets, Sens. Lindsey Graham and Mike Lee will appear in the image, as well as James Blade, director of the President’s Office of Legislative Affairs, and Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair, who was one of President Trump’s advisors in his last campaign and had a blue file with images of Colombian President Nicolas and Venezuelan President Nicolas. Both Mr. Maduro wore the orange uniforms of U.S. prisoners. United.
Mr. Petro reiterated that he was “convinced by the story of Bernie Moreno (…) that they believe that Venezuela financed my campaign because it has been thoroughly investigated for three years in a row by the same dominant right wing in the electoral system.”
“The President of the United States’ acceptance of this type of ‘fake news’ among his advisers shows his utter contempt for the people of Colombia, where over half a century hundreds of thousands of his countrymen have been murdered by a counter-drug strategy based on domestic political and military control that has been ineffective in reducing America’s cocaine consumption,” he denounced.
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