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Iván Cepeda Castro stated that the opposition should have guarantees to express themselves, question, propose, and denounce. He said that the pressure, persecution, or silencing of journalists, judges, social leaders, union representatives, students, teachers, and citizens for their work, the exercise of their rights, or their criticisms of what he called arbitrary decisions by Abelardo de la Espriella and the Government should not be normalized. He added that, in the face of any attempt to impose fear and silence, they would remain united and respond with truth, firmness, and democracy. #LibertadDeExpresión #Democracia #DerechosHumanos (translated)

Gustavo Petro criticized the Council of State for revoking the minimum vital salary and stated that the decision, which he attributed to a magistrate or the full chamber, would reduce internal consumption and could lead Colombia to an economic crisis and violence. He accused the court of acting like an office of the Casa de Nariño and asserted that the measure jeopardized the middle class and could cause widespread poverty and bankruptcies. Petro said that the increase in the minimum wage during his government had reduced poverty and contributed to decreasing thefts, domestic violence, and extortion. He also claimed that the decision disregarded the 1991 Constitution and linked the Council of State with Abelardo, whom he described as a tyrant. The president called on workers from different sectors to mobilize and asked millions of people to take to the streets to demand a vital salary, promote a general strike, and support the people's constituent power. He accused his opponents of declaring war on workers and ended with a call for a free Colombia. https://t.co/EMvqmYeWO2 #SalarioMínimo #Colombia #DerechosLaborales (translated)

Gustavo Petro said that El Espectador had mentioned his complaint about alleged electoral fraud and manipulation of millions of voters —which, according to him, the penal code refers to as "coercion of the voter"— but had not informed about its content. Therefore, he presented his allegations and asked readers to analyze them. Petro asked the registrar, in response to a legal action he had filed, why 97% of the PDF E14 forms published online by the private counting firm Thomas Gregg and Sons did not have a Hash code, despite Petro stating that he had requested it as head of State and that it had also been requested by electoral observers. He claimed that this code prevented the documents from being modified and that it had been used in his presidential election, but had been removed in subsequent elections. He also asked whether the upcoming local elections would take place without that protection. Furthermore, he argued that a forensic statistical analysis of all the polling stations had found mathematical patterns, rather than randomness, in tens of thousands of consecutive tables. He stated that the Testigos Digitales investigation —a group that, according to him, was made up of 75,000 people with knowledge of statistics and programming— had detected patterns in 1,350 voting stations, and that experts had corroborated them. He added that the analysis had utilized the Wald-Wolfowitz model, or runs test. Petro accused the registrar of lying by claiming that the PDF E14 forms had a Hash code. According to Petro, only an alphanumeric code identifying the forms had been added, but it did not prevent them from being modified, which he claimed was against the law. He also asked why the registrar had not responded to the public statement made by Donald Trump, who, according to Petro, had said that candidate Abelardo de la Espriella had won the elections thanks to him. Petro inquired whether that statement from a head of State constituted evidence against the registrar and his management. He requested that the registrar respond publicly or in the legal proceedings. #Colombia #FraudeElectoral #Democracia (translated)

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Gustavo Petro defended a proposal to desalinate seawater and pump it to Santa Marta from the north of the city using solar energy and batteries. He said that the supply would complement the water arriving by gravity from the Sierra Nevada, which, according to him, was no longer sufficient, and accused Abelardo of opposing the project as a megadrought was approaching. He also claimed that the proposal would bring drinking water to the northern Caribbean coast and questioned why the project was destroyed just as the installation was about to begin, without proposing an alternative. Petro compared Abelardo to Peñalosa and stated that the latter had replaced an underground metro with an elevated one, which, as he wrote, did not reduce average travel times and cost USD 7 billion to the Colombian people. He added that Bogotá had lost 12 years and continued to suffer from traffic jams, linking the project to the devaluation of developments in the northern savannah. In addition, he questioned the Sierra Azul mining concession, which, according to Petro, would extract copper and silver for Abelardo's foreign allies and affect the water of the Rancherías river and lands intended for food production. He argued that the priority should be to invest in drinking water for the northern Caribbean and accused Abelardo of depriving Santa Marta of water while he had never lacked it in his home in Florida, where Petro also associated him with Marcos and people he described as drug traffickers. He concluded by labeling those responsible as "professional scammers." #AguaPotable #SantaMarta #Desalinizacion (translated)

Gustavo Petro defended the pension reform and denied that his government had bought support to approve it. He said that the House of Representatives backed it widely and that the then President of the Senate, Iván Name, delayed the debate for eight months so that it would fail due to lack of time. He also accused Magistrate Ibáñez of keeping it frozen for two years in the Constitutional Court, although he pointed out that the reform had already passed that stage. According to Petro, millions of elderly people, many of them from the right, could receive a pension thanks to the law. Regarding the allegations related to the UNGRD, Petro asked the Pacto Histórico bench to commission a forensic audit of the entire existence of the entity, since 2010, and to publish the names of those whom he claimed had embezzled it. He stated that only one person from the Pacto Histórico appeared on the extensive list, whom he said he had removed from the administration and whom, according to him, the party expelled. He also argued that justice should investigate whether Name had received public money through his romantic or political environment. Petro claimed that, during the first month of his government, resources were recovered that he attributed to Olmedo's group and that then the UNGRD was sidelined in the assistance to people trapped after an earthquake in the west of the country. Citing a journalistic investigation by Nueva Prensa, he stated that a private coordination center had been set up in the house of Gregory Schaller, whom he identified as Abelardo's compadre. He linked Andrés Depew, Negre — whom he described as a partner of Fernando Cerimedo — and people who, according to him, had ties to Donald Trump and businessman Dan Newlin to that place. Petro stated that Newlin had illegally lent his plane and resources during Abelardo's campaign. In the same publication, Petro mentioned businessman Yadid Jalaff, whom he said was accused of stealing Colombian-Venezuelan Monómeros, and Jorge Alberto Campillo Vélez, whom he described as one of Pablo Escobar's first pilots. He also pointed out pilot Luis Almeira Quiroz and linked him to a flight of paramilitaries from Urabá to San José del Guaviare, which, according to Petro, allowed the Mapiripán massacre, in which 50 farmers were murdered. He asked how much money had been raised to address the earthquake and if that explained why, according to him, the full operation of the UNGRD had been prevented and international aid and volunteers had been rejected. https://t.co/eiJJnl3Lxu #ReformaPensional #Justicia #Corrupción (translated)

The account The Weeknd Brasil stated that the singer Abel's right-wing fans seemed unaware of his background. It said that he was the son of Ethiopian immigrants, had declined to participate in a TV show that would have Donald Trump as a guest, dedicated millions to humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza, and had supported initiatives against hunger and inequality for years. The account added that fans could enjoy Abel's music and disagree with his political positions, but it considered it inconsistent to ignore his background and his public statements. #Abel #Direita #Imigração (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that El Tiempo had become a sort of office for Fernando Cerimedo and criticized that, according to him, he didn't even consult the internet. He also maintained that the security companies that Abelardo claimed to sanction had already been sanctioned by the superintendent of security, Jennifer Parra, for being linked to criminal gangs and arming and escorting criminals. https://t.co/RXF3jCjkyG #Seguridad #Delincuencia #Internet (translated)

Russy Millán stated that media outlets he described as mediocre had coordinated to attack Abelardo's supporters, as they found no relevant questions against him. He added that, according to him, they had also not discovered any evidence of contracts with the state and had speculated about a nonexistent network. He also predicted new electoral victories. #Abelardo #Elecciones #MediosDeComunicación (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that the complaint about alleged electoral fraud was in the hands of the judiciary and argued that the lack of transparency from the Registraduría had violated his right to vote in the presidential elections. In a post addressed to the registrar, he asked him to explain why, according to Petro, 97% of the PDF E14 forms uploaded to the internet by the private firm Thomas Gregg and Sons did not have a Hash code. He claimed that this code prevented document modifications and that it had been used in the results of his presidential election, but not in subsequent elections. He also asked whether the upcoming local elections would be held without that tool. Petro pointed out that a statistical analysis of all voting stations, conducted with the Wald-Wolfowitz model or runs test analysis, had detected mathematical patterns in tens of thousands of consecutive voting tables, in 1,350 polling places. He attributed the finding to the group Testigos Digitales, which he wrote was made up of 75,000 citizens with knowledge of statistics and programming, and said that it had been endorsed by experts and specialists. Additionally, he accused the registrar of falsely claiming that the E14 forms had Hash codes and maintained that they had only been assigned an alphanumeric code that did not prevent modifications. Petro also asked why the registrar had not responded to Donald Trump's public claim that the candidate Abelardo de la Espriella had won the elections thanks to him. He requested a public response or one during the protection process. https://t.co/6BbFATeXGB #EleccionesTransparentes #FraudeElectoral #DerechoALaVerdad (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that the rice model proposed by Abelardo and his minister would exacerbate the problems faced by producers. He claimed that the sector was dominated by a monopsony comprised of three milling companies that bought rice cheaply from farmers and sold it at high prices to consumers, who ended up purchasing imported rice. According to Petro, Abelardo's proposal would strengthen that buying power. As an alternative, he suggested that producers form associations and become co-owners of mills to increase their incomes and sell at lower prices compared to smuggling. He also mentioned that during his government, the hectares planted with rice reached three times those dedicated to coca leaf: the former increased while the latter decreased. https://t.co/kYYk3p9Law #Agricultura #Monopsonio #ProductoresAgrarios (translated)

Gustavo Petro said that he had criticized the mayor of Sincelejo many times and compared his political background to that of Abelardo de la Esprirlla: he described the former as of popular origin and the latter as a landowner. He stated that a landowner with equal or worse political habits had sent armed civilians with rifles to prevent the mayor from speaking at an event, and had insulted him and deprived him of the opportunity to defend himself. Petro maintained that he would never have acted that way with people like Fico, Galán, Rendón, Eder, or the mayor of Bucaramanga, whom he called corrupt. He also pointed out that armed civilians with rifles protecting the president, even if they worked for private security companies, could be defined as paramilitaries. He added that, in his opinion, the president should be protected by public officials subject to civilian oversight, not by private businesses, especially if they were shady and armed. https://t.co/hqGbK3wgxv #Sincelejo #PolíticaColombiana #DerechosHumanos (translated)

Agustín Antonetti stated that all the candidates publicly backed by Javier Milei had won their presidential elections, even when they were not considered favorites. He listed Edmundo González and María Corina Machado in Venezuela and Donald Trump in 2024; Rodrigo Paz in Bolivia and Nasry Asfura in Honduras in 2025; and José Antonio Kast, Keiko Fujimori, and Abelardo de la Espriella in Chile, Peru, and Colombia, respectively, in 2025/2026 and 2026. He also included Flávio Bolsonaro in Brazil in 2026, although he noted that his victory had been partial. #Elecciones #JavierMilei #Política (translated)

UHN Plus reported that the president of Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, expressed his support for Flavio Bolsonaro ahead of the Brazilian elections. According to the outlet, De la Espriella wrote on his social media that he stood with Brazil and that, in his opinion, change meant defeating the left. #Colombia #Brasil #Elecciones (translated)

Iván Cepeda Castro stated that, two decades ago, paramilitary structures under the command of Salvatore Mancuso took control of the University of Córdoba and threatened, displaced or murdered professors, students, and workers, creating an environment that, he said, nullified academic deliberation. He also pointed out that Claudio Sánchez, rector during the takeover, was prosecuted for complicity with the paramilitaries and that Abelardo de la Espriella was his lawyer. Cepeda further maintained that De la Espriella had been a friend and partner of Mancuso, and he criticized him for now claiming that he would defend the university's institutional autonomy, calling him a liar. #Colombia #UniversidadDeCórdoba #DerechosHumanos (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that the Minister of Agriculture and Abelardo were unaware of science. He maintained that the El Niño phenomenon would arrive strongly in December and that the recent rains might not be enough to mitigate the expected damage. He also accused the Government of denying the climate crisis and neglecting food production and water, while expecting solutions from hydrocarbons, the use of which, he said, caused that crisis. #CrisisClimática #AgriculturaSostenible #CambioClimático (translated)

Levy Rincón accused Luis Carlos Vélez and Vicky Dávila of rejecting the Maduro regime and Castro-Chavismo only when they were not receiving money that, according to him, Abelardo de la Espriella had laundered for Alex Saab. He argued that those funds came from the hunger of Venezuelans and directed serious insults against both. #Venezuela #Maduro #Corrupción (translated)