Piedad Córdoba responds to the Historical Pact and assures that it has never negotiated anything in the name of the movement

On the morning of this Wednesday, April 20, the presidential candidate for the left-wing coalition Pact Histórico, Gustavo Petro Urrego, asked Piedad Córdoba, an elected senator of the same collective, to suspend her campaign activities while solving her judicial problems.

“I ask Piedad Córdoba to suspend all its activities within the campaign, until it can resolve, hopefully, favorably, the legal syndications made to it,” said the aspirant Petro through his Twitter account.

In the midst of the controversy that arose and the multiple criticisms of different political sectors of the country, the newspaper El Tiempo, announced that the decision of the Historical Pact would be motivated by alleged visits to prisons such as La Picota Prison, where his brother Álvaro Freddy Córdoba is being held, and by a letter that came to the campaign by a group of prisoners chaired by the condemned paramilitary Hector Germán Buitrago, alias Martín Llanos, in which they called for 'social inclusion'. The letter would have reached the community through Cordoba itself.

In this regard, the senator-elect of the collective accepted the resignation and clarified rumors about her visits to prisons and to be the possible mediator of prisoners for corruption and paramilitarism. In his message he made it clear that everything is to damage his name and that if he has gone to prison it is because his brother, Álvaro Córdoba, is there facing a process that links him to drug trafficking, relations with armed groups and arms trafficking.

“As is well known, my brother Álvaro is deprived of his liberty for the purpose of extradition due to an encampment action orchestrated by DEA agents to affect the election campaign of the Historical Pact, as Gustavo Petro himself has denounced,” he pointed out the policy that faces accusations linking it. with the extinct FARC and the Venezuelan regime.

She also pointed out that taking into account the context of what her brother is going through at this time she has gone because she supports him personally and legally since she is a lawyer by profession. But that does not mean that by going to a penitentiary center I went to make “clientele agreements with capos”.

“Álvaro has the right to his presumption of innocence and to be tried in accordance with Colombian law, so I have supported him family and legally, but this does not imply any clientele agreement with drug lords to obtain electoral support, nor to offer unfulfilled promises, especially if we talk about deprived of liberty in prisons other than La Picota. I haven't negotiated anything in the name of the Historical Pact or Gustavo Petro,” he added.

As a result, she again asked the ethics committee of the party to which she belongs to investigate her because she is sure that everything will be clarified in her favor “as in all previous episodes documented before the relevant authorities”.

“I reiterate my willingness expressed in a public letter of March 15 to go before the Ethics Commission of the Historical Pact to exercise my right to defend against the political persecution unleashed against me by the enemies of change. I request that my appearance be fully publicized, open to the public and to the media that have sought, for the umpteenth time, to muddy my good name and curtail my right to do politics,” Piedad Córdoba wrote.

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