The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, at an offcial ceremony in Bogota, February 18, 2025. Photo: EFE.
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, alleged that drug-trafficking mafias have plotted to attack his plane with missiles.
“Drug traffickers want to fire a missile at me, at my plane, a missile that they bought and have stored—not one, but two missiles. We know who they are, but we have to act,” the Colombian president said on Tuesday, February 18, during the swearing-in ceremony of Brigadier General Carlos Fernando Triana as the new head of the Colombian National Police, at the General Francisco de Paula Santander Cadet School in Bogota.
🛑”¿Usted sabe que a mí me quieren disparar un misil a mi avión? ¿Qué se compraron los narcotraficantes y que tienen guardado por ahí? No uno, sino dos misiles. Sabemos quiénes son, pero hay que actuar. ¿Por qué me quieren tumbar rápidamente? Porque saben que estamos tras las… pic.twitter.com/c8Cy5TgHLi
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“They want to overthrow me quickly because they know that we are going after the big mafias of Colombia, and they are scared,” he said.
He did not provide more details about the alleged plot to attack his plane.
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Previously, the Colombian president had made similar allegations. In September last year, he reported that the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), through the US ambassador in Bogota, had warned him of an alleged plan to assassinate him before the end of 2024, in an attack with a truck loaded with dynamite.
When Petro was a presidential candidate in 2022, he had alleged that the criminal gang La Cordillera had threatened him with assassination.
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Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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