Gustavo Petro denounces the interception of communications “larger to a political movement in America”

The candidate for the presidency of Colombia Gustavo Petro He spoke with 6 AM of Caracol Radio and referred this Friday to the videos that were published on the afternoon of last Tuesday in which different meetings between members of the Historical Pact are seen.

“We are talking about the largest tracking, monitoring, interception activity that a political movement has ever suffered in the Americas At least in contemporary history.” It is one of the outstanding declarations of the candidate in his passage through the aforementioned medium.

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Initially, the leader of the Historical Pact He assured that the audiovisual material was not broadcast by one of his co-supporters: “The recordings have to do with the Zoom links of the Colombia Humana platform and they are not delivered by someone from the campaign, we verified that yesterday. […] The recordings were made by someone outside the campaign”, he asserted.

Petro assured that he has “nothing to fear”

Also, the former mayor of Bogotá He reiterated that he does not havenothing left to fear”, since in the videos the confirmations of statements that he said have been made about his proposals such as that he is going to “burn down churches”, “expropriate” either “Back to Colombia as Venezuela”.

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About the above, Petro He emphasized: “Some video should appear, but there is none.”

Regarding this situation, the presidential candidate expressed that “for years, with hundreds of millions of pesos, with all the apparatus and radiation of official propaganda” national opinion has been manipulated and deceived, according to him, with different ideas.

”Ayer decían que mi viaje a Honda, donde dormí en la casa del pescador, era para un rito satánico. This is how they are manipulating, corner after corner, an electorate that is not prepared to receive that information and resolve it, ”said the candidate in this regard.

“The videos that have come out are cropped”

Gustavo Petro reaffirmed that “the videos that have come out are cut” and he has asked Revista Semana to put them all on the internet “so that any citizen can explore there, because it is the best thing to see them edited.”

In addition, the former mayor of Bogotá referred to the visits to the prisons that are mentioned from the videos: “I saw one yesterday where they talk about the prisons, cut out at the beginning and at the end, of some parliamentarians using the Colombia Humana platform making some very serious accusations that were made to us in the month of April where it was claimed that we were changing votes for rebates of penalties, that never. Do not even think about it”.

In this regard, he added: “The video is cut, if they had put it a little earlier, what Roy says is that he knows that the press is going to publish what members of the Historical Pact are going to publish. Quitaron ese pedacito que es la clave, ahí se está analizando una información que se publicará”.

Gustavo Petro and Piedad Cordoba. (Photo: César Melgarejo. THE TIME).

He even stated that he launched a trill at that time, since he had information that Piedad Córdoba was the one who was in prison “to speak with extraditables”, for which he preferred to prevent the coup by saying that he was separating the senator from his campaign.

Strategies against other campaigns

Gustavo Petro also talked about Sebastián Camilo Guanumen Parramember of the press team of the Historical Pact and who proposed “attack fico”.

”I have a communications director who has some teams and people who work on that front to communicate, so they take a video of a boy with the surname Guanumen, who is not our communications director, he is only making proposals. The conduct of the campaign was to listen to thousands of people, some with very successful or unsuccessful ideas, but there are some directors who make strategic decisions, one of them myself”, emphasized the candidate.

About the statements in which Roy Barreras proposed “dividing the center” and called “Threats” to Sergio Fajardo and Alejandro GaviriaPetro explained that this video is from October 2021 and what is said there is not the final determination on the Hope Center Coalition, since the Historical Pact did not yet exist.

”The precision that I took was to invite them to a single consultation, and I made it public in a statement and interviews. Fue una decisión estratégica, en mi opinión no estaba desacertada en el momento. There are different opinions, it is the process in any political organization that claims to be democratic, “said the candidate who was the official position against said group.

Source: Elcomercio