The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petroassured this Tuesday that he escaped an assassination attempt while flying in a helicopter, after months of warnings about an alleged plan by drug traffickers to kill him.
The leftist president maintained that on Monday night he could not land in the department of Córdoba, in the Colombian Caribbean, because he “feared” that “they were going to shoot” the aircraft in which he was traveling.
His complaint occurs in the midst of a spike in violence that is shaking the electoral campaign three months before the presidential elections, in which by law he cannot seek re-election.
Gustavo Petro assures that a “new drug trafficking board“He wants to assassinate him since he came to power in August 2022.
Drug dealer plot
Drug traffickers living abroad and guerrillas such as Iván Mordisco, the most wanted criminal in the country and in command of the largest dissident group of the FARC guerrilla that signed the 2016 peace agreement, participate in this alleged plot.
In Córdoba the Gulf Clanthe largest cartel in the country, which last week decided to suspend peace talks after Petro agreed with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to launch a hunt to find its leader, alias Chiquito Malo.
Colombia has a long list of assassinated left-wing leaders, including presidential candidates, due to alliances between drug traffickers, paramilitary groups and state agents.
Petro, the first left-wing president in the country’s history, had denounced another alleged assassination attempt against him in 2024, which prevented him from attending a military parade on July 20 of that year.
During his campaign, Petro appeared in public spaces heavily guarded, even his bodyguards carried armored shields to protect him.
The then opposition senator claimed that a drug trafficker from the coffee region of the country wanted to kill him.
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