Gustavo Petro denounces that they are trying to infiltrate drug trafficking money into his presidential campaign

Less than two months after the presidential elections and the candidates who will go to the second round are known to reach the Casa de Nariño and lead the country for the next four years, the different movements, coalitions and parties are running to reach the largest number of Colombians with their proposals. In the midst of this juncture, when financial support and donations continue to come in for politicians to continue their journeys, Gustavo Petro expressed his concern: they are looking for ways to leak drug-trafficking money into their finances, according to him.

The candidate for the Historical Pact made the serious complaint through his social networks, where he also took the opportunity to ask his campaign committees and his followers to be aware of the money being handled in the campaign, since, allegedly, this plan would be carried out from some prisons in the country.

“We have information about a plan drawn up from prisons to infiltrate my campaign with money from drug trafficking. Maximum attention to all municipal committees, money will only be raised in national management and for loans from the financial system,” the presidential candidate wrote on his Twitter account.

The Senator of Human Colombia did not give any further details of the complaint, it is not known if the authorities were already alerted or who is behind the alleged plan that would significantly affect his candidacy, but his followers were concerned and expressed their support to continue “defending the campaign”.

For their part, people who are against the ideas of the progressive representative referred to the support that the politician received from former President Ernesto Samper, who at the time was related to drug trafficking money and is known for what was called the eight thousand process.

A few days ago there was speculation as Gustavo Petro met with members of the Green Party, congressmen Roy Barreras and María José Pizarro were meeting with former President Samper and his son, former Senate candidate Miguel Samper Strouss.

“With President Samper we are united by history. We share spaces like the Puebla group. And well, what we did was start talking about the organization and participation of sectors of the center, to support the Historical Pact,” said the representative and now senator-elect María José Pizarro, through her social networks.

“He obviously told us that his greatest interest has to do with the continuity and commitment of the Pact, in the realization of the peace agreements and with a new economic model, to manage the post-pandemic. We are committed to an era of peace that cannot be postponed for our country,” he added.

“From the Puebla Group we have obviously been talking about the solidarity model that we are proposing, which we can obviously emphasize. And with Miguel Samper, his son, a whole series of considerations were made about comprehensive rural land reform,” he said.

It has been speculated that congressmen have in mind to meet again with the Sampers to chart the route of what would be the common issues between a possible Petro government, in the event of winning the elections, and the former president.

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