COLOMBIA PRES HOPEFUL. At age 5 he lost his kidnapped journalist mother who died during a botched rescue attempt. Then on Aug. 11 at age 39 Miguel Uribe Turbay died of gunshots from a 14-year- old assassin. It happened during a June 7 Bogota rally for his conservative presidential campaign. While being arrested, the boy assassin shouted, “I’m sorry, I did it for the money, for my family.”
For which money? From a drug gang like the Medellin Cartel which kidnapped his mother in 1990? During the 80s and early 90s, that cartel committed 3000+ assassinations including 500+ police officers. So far, Colombian prosecutors have arrested one alleged accomplice and one alleged mastermind. But we have no names for the suspected assassin, accomplice or mastermind.
After the attack, tens of thousands streamed into Bogota supporting Uribe and protesting the violence. During the 2022 campaign Uribe got elected senator with more votes than anyone in the Democratic Center party. Then he became one of President Gustavo Petro’s strongest critics.
Where did Petro’s dollars come from?
Unfortunately, Petro once had membership in the marxist guerrilla M-19 movement known as “El Eme.” According to Colombia Reports, “the modus operandi of the group was kidnapping for ransom, mainly of drug traffickers and their families. From 1976-1978, they kidnapped over 400 victims.” Petro joined them in 1977 at age 17.
After becoming Colombia’s 2nd-largest guerrilla group in the 80s, they turned toward electoral politics. But even after becoming Colombia’s president, Petro continues to be viewed as soft on drug crime. He has fought extraditions of alleged drug criminals to the US. And he has supported growing legal marijuana in place of Colombia’s cocaine trace.
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