It is worth remembering that during President Petro’s statements, he denounced alliances by the banana union with paramilitary groups to confront the militiamen of the Popular Liberation Army EPL.
“People with their needs organized, demanded, wanted to have a better life and that clash ended in an armed conflict. There was a powerful insurgent presence of the Popular Liberation Army (EPL), which affected the banana business community, which reacted by paramilitarizing, not all, there will always be exceptions, but that’s more or less how history was,” said the head of state, generating unrest for apparently softening the role of the EPL in the conflict that arose decades ago in the area.
Mejía also referred to this, who He rejected the attempt to “false history” to improve the image of insurgent groups that exerted pressure and attacks against the business community and the civilian population.
“One cannot now, as Gustavo Petro wants to do, try to impose a narrative that falsifies history, where it turns the perpetrators into victims, where It turns the executioners into people who were simply defending themselves, because what appears in Gustavo Petro’s mouth is rather a justification for himself for all the violence he caused when he was part of one of those extremist and violent movements,” he concluded.