Gustavo Petro retracted his claims about Venezuelan Lorent Saleh in 2019

Presidential candidate Gustavo Petro reportedly retracted the statements about Venezuelan human rights activist Lorent Saleh, this after a conciliation process was carried out before the Investigation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice for libel and libel that began in February 2019. The leader of Human Colombia, without giving any further explanation, posted the following message on his social networks:

“In relation to the Venezuelan citizen Lorent Sale, there is no indication or proof, nor do I know, that the man abused women under the influence of drugs on the day of their detention by the National Police in the city of Cucuta on February 27, 2019,” said the presidential candidate for the Pact Histórico coalition.

This comes after lengthy attempts at conciliation in which Petro refused to retract the message he posted on Twitter on February 27, 2019, in which he compared two Venezuelans in two completely different situations, this however, he did so without mentioning any of the people's names.

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“A Venezuelan parked his car badly, was arrested and immediately expelled and separated from his Colombian family. The other got high, beat two Colombian women but they take him in pictures next to the president like a hero. The reason? The first is from the left and the second is neo-Nazi,” said Gustavo Petro in the message he published more than three years ago.

At that time, the lawsuit warned of the impact that the senator's triune had had since it generated “more than 1,400 comments, was retweeted 6,100 times and generated 10,000 likes”, according to Saleh's lawyer, at that time the rights to honor and good name were violated.

In the middle of the electoral contests and where the candidate of the Historical Pact has been very active on his social networks, the message he published generated more than 300 comments, 880 retweets and more than 2,500 likes, however, this post he made at 11.40 pm, went unnoticed by many since at 11:41 p.m. a video of the the electoral campaign that it is carrying out. “The change we want seeks to defend and enhance the minimum, what is yours, what is ours: LIFE Turning the page and abandoning that policy that has left us a history of pain and death, and give way to a policy of LIFE,” he published in the trill.

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It was in July 2013 that it was first heard on behalf of Lorent Saleh in the country, as she assured that he was one of the panelists at the launch of the Nationalist Alliance for Freedom, a movement of the neo-Nazi Colombian group Third Force. The Venezuelan defended himself and responded by saying that he did not believe in Nazi positions and defined himself as a human rights activist, student leader and opponent of the Venezuelan government.

Juan Manuel Santos's government deported him to his country as a foreigner who violated “national security, public order, public health, social tranquility”. In Venezuela he became a political prisoner, however, four years later, the director of Human Rights Watch assured that a group of United Nations experts had concluded that the government's decision at that time was “in violation of human rights”.

On February 22, 2019, at the Venezuela Live Aid concert held in Cucuta, Saleh reported that Colombian police arrested and beaten him, stating that, “In the middle of that meeting there was an incident, officials from the National Police arrived at the scene, asked for the documents of the people who were with me (...) I was meeting several political leaders of the Democratic Center and for reasons that I do not know I was beaten and forced into a patrol”

After this situation that arose three years ago, the now presidential candidate made the aforementioned triune by which a conciliation was reached and led to a retraction on Tuesday, February 22, 2022, for what was said at that time.

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