President Gustavo Petro condemns threatened coup against Colombian state

Colombian President Gustavo Petro, September 12, 2024 Photo: @elcomercio_peru

September 12, 2024 Time: 7:03 PM

The Chairman pointed out that significant sums of money are involved in these alleged impeachment attempts.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has warned of a suspected plan to remove him from office. At an event in Armenia, Quindio, where he met with representatives of alternative media, the president revealed details of what he sees as an imminent threat to his government.

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“A coup d’etat is not the generals of the police and the army, who are looking for a way to take over the palace and remove the president, no gentlemen, they are not brutal land oligarchs. It is a coup d’etat for the Colombians,” Petro declared to the audience.

The chairman pointed out that there are significant amounts of money involved in these alleged attempts at impeachment. To contextualize his argument: Petro’s recent events in other Latin American countries, such as the attempted military uprising against Bolivian President Luis Arce and the resignation of Pedro Castillo in Peru.

Petro said there was a plan to attempt his life or remove him from office within the next three months. “They wanted to see if the Salvador Allende affair would repeat itself, to block the roads and overthrow the president, and that’s what they want: either the president dies or they overthrow him, the order has been given,” the president said.

#AEstaHora 📣 “A golpe de Estado is not a son of the general police and the ejército, but can reach the Palace and the president, not señores, not a son who grosses the oligarcas de país. There is a golpe de Estado in la Colombia”, president @petrogustavo. photo.twitter.com/zFfSs1ABjg

— Radio National CO (@RadNalCo) September 12, 2024

The Colombian head of state added that this alleged coup d’état “would be financed by the mafia”. He criticized the National Electoral Council (CNE)’s trial against his presidential campaign for alleged irregular financing, suggesting that there are financial interests behind bringing the case to the House Indictment Commission to suspend him from office.

It is argued that in the case of your salida, the President of the Republic would be Efraín Cepeda, the de facto President of the Senate. Some people want you to produce a natural act of your cargo, while protecting it from the Constitution.

The president stated that if he had not had popular support, this alleged coup would have been carried out immediately. These statements have led to an intense debate in the country about political stability and tensions between the government and different sectors of Colombian society.

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