“There (in Pereira) where I had to suspend the demonstration because they said they were going to kill me, a gang that are precisely the armed men who collect the credit that the threatened woman has to pay at 20% daily so that aliases “Calzones” becomes a millionaire,” added Gustavo Petro.
Two weeks ago, his campaign team denounced a plot to assassinate him orchestrated by “La Cordillera”, a narco-paramilitary group that operates in the so-called Coffee Regionwhich is located in the center west of the country.
Along with Gustavo Petro, his vice-presidential candidate, France Marquez, who also suffered racist insults throughout the campaign. the government of the president, Ivan DukeAlthough he condemned these attacks, he pointed out that they do not have information that there is a real danger.
For his part, Federico Gutiérrez’s head of debate, Luis Felipe Henao, denied these accusations. “I do not know Dr. César Giraldo. He is not the coordinator of Federico Gutiérrez’s campaign in Risaralda. I think it is another of the recurring lies of which we are being victims,” he said.
Thus, he stressed that they expect the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the acts. “Gustavo Petro first said that he was ‘La Cordillera’ (and) today it came out that he was a businessman. We hope that the Prosecutor’s Office, the national government and the Public Force give him all the guarantees, but what I do say is that this is yet another act of lies of which we are victims”, as Caracol Radio has collected.
Source: Ambito
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