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)