Petro claims elites are planning coup d'tat in Colombia

[Judi Lynn]

CNE reportedly has enough evidence to impose sanctions on president
by Adriaan Alsema September 2, 2024


Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Sunday that “enemies” of his leftist government are planning a coup d’état.

In a post on social media platform X, Petro said that it would “depend on the people who elected me whether the oligarchic design becomes a reality or we defeat them again.”

This will not be a parliamentary vote of our enemies to remove us. This will be a popular struggle.

President Gustavo Petro

The president published the message shortly after news website Cambio published evidence that would prove that Petro’s 2022 campaign had breached spending regulations.

The alleged spending violation has been investigated by the National Electoral Council (CNE), an electoral tribunal that is made up of appointees of Colombia’s political parties.

Until August, only Congress had the authority to investigate the president and potentially remove him from office.

This changed on August 6 when the consultations chamber of the State Council ruled that the CNE was allowed to both investigate Petro and “impose the corresponding administrative sanctions.”

More:
https://colombiareports.com/petro-claims-elites-are-planning-coup-detat-in-colombia/

Gustavo Petro is the first, the only leftist President Colombia has ever had. Colombia has always been controlled by a radical, far right oligarchy which has been responsible for the assassination of multiple leftist Presidential election candidates, and has had ties, through its military, to the death squads of the Colombian paramilitary narco-traffickers who have been responsible for countless massacres and social cleansings and political murders for decades.

Unfortunately, Washington has always supported the radical, hard right feudal system maintained by Colombia's oligarchs.