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Gustavo Petro stated that the manipulation of algorithms to combat electoral fraud in Colombia may have been carried out with the consent of Thomas Gregg and Sons, a company owned by the Bautista brothers. He also claimed that the government had violated contractual norms, which could expose Colombia to a sanction of 70 million dollars, and linked that breach to the payment of an electoral favor. Petro added that the operator of the count, whose situation was under judicial review, wanted to enter Mexico along with the Mexican electoral authority and questioned the purpose of that. https://t.co/KZcdtzocyE #FraudeElectoral #Colombia #Democracia (translated)

Gustavo Petro recounted that he learned about the case of Luciana García when he was president and that, according to him, doctors had predicted she had less than six months to live. He stated that the girl was born with Wolman syndrome, an orphan disease, and that only 27 people had survived it until then. Petro said that he called the EPS and the clinic where Luciana had been hospitalized since she was 15 days old to arrange for medication and specialized food that, according to him, the entity was reluctant to cover due to its cost. He added that, three days later, the girl received care and a coordination began with doctors from Spain and the United Kingdom. He also mentioned that he prayed for her and that Luciana had greeted him from the incubator. According to Petro, the disease involves the absence of an enzyme called lysosomal acid lipase and, without treatment, can cause malnutrition. He indicated that managing the condition cost 160 million pesos per month and that Luciana was already one year old when he visited her. He said he hoped the EPS would not abandon her and attributed her survival, in part, to the efforts he made during his government. #MilagroMédico #DerechosHumanos #SaludInfantil (translated)

Former President Gustavo Petro did not speak out immediately after the video was published, but when the accusations arose, he did not deny knowing her: he only said categorically at that time that he has never offered public contracts. #GustavoPetro #Corrupción #DeicyJiménez (translated)

Gustavo Petro said that he had spent a good part of his life facing lawsuits and attacks for denouncing violence and corruption, and that the criticisms on social media often preceded judicial processes. He stated that he would face the current case before the judges and maintained that he had never used state contracts to obtain favors. He also defended the women who worked in his government and said that they had been chosen for their ability and effort. Petro pointed out that the material circulating had not been examined by experts nor valued by a judge, and that its date, origin, and actual content were unknown. He assured that it did not show corruption, as, according to him, there were no contracts, payments, or governmental decisions related to it. He added that the magistrate had ordered a reservation and that he would respond in the case file, not in a video. He asked the authorities to protect the witness and the other people involved in the process. He also questioned those who spread images of the supposed intimacy of individuals to support a political discussion and asked if that could be considered journalism. Petro argued that such attention diverted focus from a law that, according to him, reduced sentences for drug traffickers, increased taxes for poor people and wage workers, and granted more privileges to the rich. He stated that the law would not pass constitutional scrutiny. Finally, he said that he had instructed his lawyer to go to the authorities for what he described as a new attack and to file a lawsuit against the submission law the next day. #Justicia #Corrupción #DerechosHumanos (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that the headquarters of the University of Valle in Sevilla, Valle del Cauca, cost 14 billion pesos and was financed and built by his government. He also asserted that the people who were cutting the ribbon intended to defund the university. #UniversidadDelValle #Educación #ValleDelCauca (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that the director of the Special Assets Society, an entity that manages the assets of drug traffickers, was returning estates that his government had handed over to farmers to corrupt individuals linked to paramilitarism. He also described her as a defender of drug traffickers and called the measure a "counter-agrarian reform." #Justicia #Agricultura #Corrupción (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that the fiscal deficit, which he attributed to the gasoline subsidy of the current Vice President of the Republic, would ultimately fall on the middle class and working people. He said he had proposed that bankers and the unproductive wealthy sectors of the country bear it. He also argued that VAT on food would be increased and compared the measure to those associated with Carrasquilla, whom he linked to policies that, he wrote, harmed the working population. #DéficitFiscal #IVA #JusticiaSocial (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that a discrediting strategy had ended and argued that the use of the expression "in my opinion" aimed to evade legal proceedings. He said he would take legal action and asserted that, unlike right-wing sectors that, according to him, had made it their mission to kill those who thought differently, his Government had guaranteed respect for the opposition. Petro indicated that, in a meeting in his office, he had told Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay and former President Álvaro Uribe that the opposition would have the guarantees provided by law and the Constitution. He asserted that his Government had fully respected the opposition for four years. He also maintained that whoever killed Miguel Uribe had no connection to the Government and that the matter should be clarified through criminal and civil proceedings that, he said, he had decided to initiate due to what he described as slanders against him. #PolíticaColombiana #Justicia #DerechosHumanos (translated)

Gustavo Petro said that Angie Rodríguez would not present evidence publicly and maintained that she would have to submit it to the courts. He denied having ordered her to talk to paramilitaries to attack someone and asserted that if Rodríguez asked Salvatore Mancuso for such a thing, it was her decision and she must answer to the judges. Petro pointed out that Rodríguez left the government for giving public positions to an heir of paramilitarism. He also said that she had talked about her private life with claims that he described as false and absurd. He denied that there were sexual photos or videos on his phone or that drugs or alcohol were consumed in his offices, and he rejected having any addictions. In defense of his rights, he invoked articles 15 and 21 of the Constitution regarding privacy, good name, and honor, and article 20 about freedom of expression and rectification. He added that, according to article 29, whoever accuses must prove it, and the presumption of innocence applies. Petro stated that Rodríguez worked by his side for a long time and never witnessed acts of corruption or his attempts to obtain personal benefits. He said that if she had seen a crime, she would have had the duty to report it, but she did not do so and had not presented evidence. He announced that he would go to court and take the case to its final consequences so that, he said, Rodríguez's intentions would be known. #Justicia #Intimidad #LibertadDeExpresión (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that Laura Sarabia never blackmailed him during his time in government. He said that their professional and political relationship, which began during the campaign when he met her, had been maintained until then and that there was no action related to a crime between them. #Política #Justicia #Confianza (translated)

Gustavo Petro argued that he did not need to request statements from paramilitaries against Álvaro Uribe or Abelardo de la Espriella, as he wrote, those statements had been made years earlier under the Justice and Peace Law, which required telling the truth in order to obtain political benefits. He stated that the friendship between De la Espriella and Salvatore Mancuso was documented in photographs and was public knowledge. He also pointed out a document from a foundation advising paramilitaries in which, he said, De la Espriella participated along with the current president of Ecopetrol, Joaquín Gutierrez. Petro added that the environment surrounding Mancuso and the people holding high public positions allowed for the existence of that relationship to be noted. #Colombia #Justicia #Política (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that the two former officials of his government had not presented evidence of their accusations to the Prosecutor's Office, which he described as slanders. He said he would take them to criminal proceedings so they could present their evidence and the justice system could decide. Petro denied having asked paramilitaries to accuse a specific person and maintained that, during his political control debates as a congressman, he himself had made accusations based on judicial evidence. Regarding Abelardo, he stated that his relationship as an advisor to paramilitarism had been mentioned and documented with photographs in those debates, and that it had appeared in paramilitary confessions for years. He also said that what happened in Ralito had been established through a law of the Republic and attributed the proposal to subordinate legal benefits to telling the whole truth to the Constitutional Court. According to Petro, his government had only warned that the process should be concluded with truth, restorative justice, and guarantees of non-repetition. https://t.co/AVzLiUP0CA #Justicia #Verdad #Corrupción (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that congressmen from the Historical Pact had detected a formal defect in the budget, which was at risk of sinking. He argued that Congress should not have approved a proposal that cut transfers to regions for health and education while allocating 5 billion to pay private debts to the EPS. https://t.co/4IvjlRlYnm #Presupuesto #Congreso #PactoHistórico (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that the general budget could not become law because the texts approved by the Senate and the Chamber did not match. He also claimed that it included a provision to allocate 5 trillion for the payment of private EPS accounts, something that, according to him, the Government could only do regarding debts of national or mixed public EPS. He added that there was only one entity of that kind, Nueva EPS, and that half of its shares belonged to the national Government. #Presupuesto #EPS #Gobierno (translated)

Gustavo Petro described the accusation against his ex-wife, Verónica Alcocer, regarding a flight in which she supposedly carried suitcases as an infamy. He stated that the flight, which was recorded, had been a round trip on the same day and that there were no suitcases or space for them on the FAC plane; he added that none were seen in the video. He also argued that all suitcases were searched at Catam before the departure of the FAC planes. #Calumnias #Verdad #Justicia (translated)