In the Historical Pact they were clear that several troubles were going to break out and would put the coalition that supports Gustavo Petro once morest the ropes.
This is evidenced by a ‘petrovideo’, known exclusively by SEMANA, where Roy Barreras says that he has learned information according to which members of the Historical Pact are visiting extraditables in La Picota.
In a meeting of the political committee, following hearing Barreras, the liberal senator Luis Fernando Velasco issues a warning: “The campaign has to make very strong, radical decisions, there is talk of some things that are going to blow up, not Gustavo, but to some colleagues in the campaign (…) The campaign cannot continue to hide problems. If the campaign has to say to someone: ‘Look sir or look ma’am, in the face of this evidence we can no longer support you, we have to do it, we have to break, we must not continue giving the impression that we tolerate things that we criticize in others because they are our people”.
“If there is information as complex as what Roy says, let’s go ahead, let’s blow things up, let’s disqualify whoever goes out to do that barbarity that Roy has just expressed. Before they blow it up in our faces”, asks Velasco. They ignored him and the problems broke out.
“All the support so that, regardless of the party, if someone has seriously messed it up, we cannot continue to have them by our side. To save a person’s face, we are going to burst a possibility like the one we have, that sectors that really want to risk it for a change that the country needs, let’s get to that change. It is a vote of confidence for Gustavo, for Gustavo to make very strong decisions, that we support him, empowered, that he says: ‘No more’. The country is waiting for that message,” said Velasco.
“There are visits to the prisons, to the pavilion of extraditables, of people from the Historical Pact, offering non-extradition to those extraditables… They met in the pavilions,” Roy Barreras told Clara López Obregón and Eduardo Noriega, at the same meeting. to which Luis Fernando Velasco connected.
And there he went ahead to launch a proposal: “prepare” for the storm and anticipate the political and judicial outbreak, like someone who “explodes in a controlled way” an explosive.
In another meeting of the steering committee of the campaign, in which more people participate, and when the scandal has already broken, the subject becomes a more heated discussion. Alfonso Prada warns: “On the subject of extradition and prisons, there is identification, monitoring, recordings, they have all the hours of the meetings.” Luis Fernando Velasco screams and says: “Don’t be an asshole.”
Indeed, Piedad Córdoba’s visits to the La Picota pavilion for extraditables were known. In addition, it was also known that Juan Fernando Petro, brother of the presidential candidate, visited those convicted of corruption, parapolitics and homicide in La Picota, with whom he would have talked regarding “social forgiveness.”
