“I have met him several times”

In Follow the W was the presidential candidate for the Historical Pact, Gustavo Petrospeaking regarding his government proposals and referred to the meeting he held with the businessman Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angle.

According to his words, it is not the first time they have met, since they had already done so “many times in the past”, even to discuss the financing of the underground Metro proposed by the then mayor of Bogotá.

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“Speaking with Luis Carlos Sarmiento is not an extraordinary event for me, what must be underlined is that he would never bend the public interest to a powerful private interest. I have talked to many bankers,” she noted.

“The conversation in general with the financial system, both national and international, has been around a financial reform in Colombia,” added Petro.

Presidential candidate Gustavo Petro gave details of what he has discussed with Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo and other national and international bankers: “There is a proposal on the table and it has to do with: strengthen public bankingthe Agrarian Bank, to make it industrial and urban for the popular economy; strengthen the cooperative credit system, invite more digital banks with lower costs than those of traditional banking so that it is cheaper to access financial services and, finally, ensure that millions of Colombians can obtain credit to undertakeboth in the countryside and in the city, because we need to replace the daily pay system or ‘drop by drop’, since it destroys the popular economy and is a mafia system”.