Benedetti’s audios that have Gustavo Petro in check
In June of last year, President Gustavo Petro assured that his electoral campaign did not receive money from drug trafficking. Nor has his Government done anything illegal, in response to threats from former ambassador to Venezuela Armando Benedetti, that he may reveal secrets of the 2022 elections.
Petro said on his Twitter account that his Government “has not accepted blackmail over public positions or contracts, nor has money been received in the campaign from people linked to drug trafficking, much less have figures such as 15,000 million been handled outside of our accounting”.
“I do not accept blackmail, nor do I see politics as a space for personal favors”, the president said in a lengthy tweet. Benedetti, who until June 2022 was Colombia’s ambassador in Caracas, threatened at the time to reveal secrets of the presidential campaign, upset by the treatment received in the Government, in conversations with the now former Chief of Staff, Laura Sarabia published by magazine Week.