Last week, a new controversy broke out in the framework of the campaigns being carried out by the candidates for the presidency of Colombia. In this case, Gustavo Petro's name was what was involved in what the Historic Pact candidate described as an electoral strategy to muddy his campaign.
This is the visit made by the candidate's brother to La Picota prison, the photos that were leaked and an alleged proposal for “social forgiveness” that would be advanced in Colombian prisons.
As a result of all the allegations that arose from Juan Fernando Petro's visit to La Picota, a confrontation reportedly broke out between the prisoners of that prison.
According to information revealed by the newspaper El Tiempo, the 'white-collar' inmates in the so-called Ere courtyard, would be pointing to a former Cesar senator as the one responsible for taking the photo of Petro's brother leaving prison and later disseminating it and creating all this controversy.
“Some are holding Pedro Muvdi responsible, without further evidence. And they are asking Dr. Iván Moreno or Álvaro 'el Gordo' García, to take the spokesperson and go out and tone down the scandal that arose,” one of the prisoners in the aforementioned courtyard said in an interview with El Tiempo.
In addition, another prisoner reportedly assured that several prisoners were requesting improvements in conditions inside prisons. In addition, that one of the people who managed Petro's brother's visit is a member of the Inpec union that supports the campaign of the leader of Human Colombia.
It should be recalled that although many linked Juan Fernando Petro's visit to his brother's campaign, the candidate came out to say that it had nothing to do with it and, on the contrary, it was an administration of the Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace.
One of the points why Petro has been most pointed out is that before his brother's visit to La Picota, a document was published in that penitentiary in which he spoke of “social forgiveness” and promised discounts and pardon of sentences to those already convicted. However, the document did not have a signature or logos of Gustavo Petro's campaign.
A trap to muddy Gustavo Petro's campaign?
Gustavo Petro published a video in which he clarified the rumors that have emerged on social networks about a mass outflow of prisoners convicted of corruption within his government plan.
He also assured that he rejects the “clumsy idea” of the search for reconciliation to a “reduction of penalties for the corrupt” and assured that he will not do so “even in a nightmare” would it occur to reduce penalties for the corrupt.
“Other rivals do have them as allies and ready to wield power. We are those corrupt condemned prisoners,” said the candidate, who recalled in the video that the investigations he did as a senator led many to prison.
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