“Watch out for Fidel Castro's dream”: Uribe warns that Colombia is at risk of losing its democracy

One of the figures against the left and progressivism in the continent is former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, who in a recent triune on his official Twitter profile reiterated that he does not want the political models of Cuba, Nicaragua or Venezuela for his country.

In his short but vehement publication, the also natural head of the Democratic Center asked citizens to be careful about the vote they will cast at the polls next May 29, in the first presidential round that will define the possible successor of Ivan Duque.

Moreover, he even remembered the deceased former president of Cuba, Fidel Castro and said that an eventual leftist mandate in Colombia would be to fulfill the dream he always had in life related to our country.

“Watch out for Fidel Castro's dream: The Caribbean Triangle, Cuba Venezuela and Colombia. Watch out for the vote,” urged Álvaro Uribe, today investigated for procedural fraud and manipulation of witnesses.

The criticism of the upcoming elections did not stop there. The former senator also said that the nation is not facing an “alternation of power”, moving from the right to the left, but that it risks being left in the hands of, according to him, a dictatorship.

Uribe's pullas come after his upcoming meetings with Oxygen Green presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt were confirmed. Through his Twitter account, the former president thanked the applicant for the dialogues and possible accessions they hold for the first round.

“I am grateful to Dr. Ingrid Betancourt. It is very important to advance the dialogue with her, her team and the Democratic Center,” wrote the former president, today under investigation for two crimes, in a trill.

The talks to which Uribe refers were announced by the candidate of the Green Oxygen party. This Thursday, March 31, after the debate organized by the Javeriana University in Bogotá, Betancourt told the press that she is open to making possible alliances for the first round with Uribism.

Moreover, she said she is grateful to Álvaro Uribe for coordinating the operation Jaque, in which she regained her freedom after being kidnapped by the then FARC guerrilla group. In addition, he acknowledged that, due to the judicial situation of the former senator, no one wants to make alliances with him for the presidential elections.

“With Dr. Álvaro Uribe, gratitude that I owe him my freedom, but also expand the possibility of dialogue with everyone. He is at the moment in a complicated situation: everyone rejects him. I think it is also important for us, if there is a desire to end the machinery, that it comes from any level or ideological spectrum,” said Ingrid Betancourt.

However, she made it clear, as she has repeatedly done, that the red lines for accessions with her is that political parties and figures do not have, what she calls, “machinery”.

“We have had contacts with the Democratic Center. The truth is, for us the red border is machinery. These are debates that they will have internally, but I do hope that in these elections we can build a united front for a country, leaving machinery aside and offering Colombia a choice,” said the only female presidential candidate in this electoral contest.

The fact that the independent applicant opened the door to Uribism for possible alliances has not gone unnoticed by public opinion and, of course, they leave vehement questions to those who were a member of the Esperanza Center Coalition until a few months ago, but who got away after clashes with Alejandro Gaviria, who in that at the time he was a presidential pre-candidate.

“Everything that has happened with Ingrid Betancur is ridiculous: she was imported as a “coach” of the center; she took office without even telling her colleagues; she fought with Gaviria in a debate; she divided the coalition almost to death... and now she flirts with the Democratic Center,” the renowned journalist Daniel Samper Ospina said in a trill.

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