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Colombian President, Gustavo Petroassured that his electoral campaign did not receive money from the drug trafficking nor has his Government done anything illegal, in response to the threats of the former ambassador in Venezuela Armando Benedettithat it can reveal secrets of the 2022 elections.
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Petro said on his Twitter account that in his government “nor have blackmail been accepted about public offices or contracts, nor have money from people linked to drug trafficking been received in the campaignMuch less have figures such as 15,000 million been handled outside of our accounting”.
“I do not accept blackmail, nor do I see politics as a space for personal favors”the president said in a lengthy tweet.
Benedetti, who until last Friday was ambassador of Colombia in Caracasthreatened to reveal secrets of the presidential campaign, annoyed by the treatment received in the Government, in conversations with the now former chief of staff, Laura Sarabia, published this Sunday by Semana magazine.
The questioned politician, who was fundamental in the Petro’s campaign and decisive for his triumph in the Atlantic Coastsent a series of audio messages to Sarabia in recent days to express his disagreement with Petro’s delay in receiving it, the disclosure of which has caused a stir in the country.
“Get ready because at any moment I claim my political space and don’t do it so they can see, and if you think it’s a threat, it’s a threat and if you want to record it, record it, I explode because yesterday you mistreated me like shit and that is not done to Benedetti “affirms in what was published by Semana.
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In the audios, Benedetti reminds you of Sarabia that he collected “15,000 million pesos (about 3.5 million dollars)” for Petro’s campaign and tells him that if he talks and counts who financed his campaign on the Atlantic coast, they will all end up in prison.
“It’s not sucking a cock (joke), it’s not a threat, because you know me. I’m not going to let myself suck a cockLaura, I swear to you on the lives of my children that it will never happen, we all sink, we all end, we go to jail”he tells him in one of the recordings published by the magazine.
About, Petro assures that he reached the Presidency “just to achieve more social justice in my country. That is what moves and obsesses me. If there are people in a different logic in the Government it is better that they separate from him”.
“I think I understand what happens to the mind of Armando BenedettiI accept your apologies, but you must explain your words to the Prosecutor’s Office and the country.”added the president, after the former ambassador apologized for his threats, full of swear words and personal offenses, and said that the audios were “manipulated”.
Benedetti had come to Bogota last Wednesday to speak with Petro after being pointed out as the person who leaked to the press the possible abuse of power in the case of the investigation into Marelbys Mezawho was the nanny of the son of Sarabia and accused of stealing a briefcase with an unspecified sum of money from the house of the now former official.
However, Petro did not receive Benedetti that daywho interpreted this treatment as a humiliation, according to Semana, and for that reason he threatened Sarabia -who was her adviser in her time as a senator and who introduced her to the current president- with telling what she knows about the last presidential campaign.
“Then, so be it. hypocriteone goes and receives people, but the treatment that you and the president gave me yesterday, fagot, I don’t know, besides, what I am going to tell you is not a threat (…) I see that this can impute me , kick son of a bitch, and there we all fall “Benedetti told Sarabia.
Source: Elcomercio
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