Juan Carlos López, a Colombian drug trafficker known under the pseudonym “Sobrino” and extradited to the United States in 2013, Supported the 2022 presidential campaign Today’s president is in Gustavo Petro’s Casanare (east) division, as a journalistic investigation refuted by the president revealed this Sunday.
The Noticias Caracol investigation, according to wiretaps by López officials and members of the criminal gang, and prosecutor’s evidencedrug smuggler and his wife, Sandra Navarro, played a key role in the logistics of Petro’s campaign in Casanare.
The report shows that López’s wife was part of Petro’s campaign in Casanare and that members of Colombia Humana, the presidential party knew the drug smuggler’s background and his family.
According to Noticias Caracol, a Petro campaign event was even held at the home of López, who was also convicted in Colombia after paying his prison sentence for drug trafficking in the United States.
This case came to light two weeks after the President’s eldest son, Nicolás Petro Burgos, was admitted before the court. Prosecutor receiving money of illegal origin and that part of him allegedly entered the presidential campaign in 2022, although his father made it clear that he did not know.
The National Electoral Council (CNE) should investigate whether this money was saved by Petro’s presidential campaign and thus determine whether the then candidate knew.
López, repeat offender
Drug trafficker López was arrested again as the leader of a criminal gang in June last year, days after Petro won the election.
Likewise, López’s couple, who was then part of Petro’s party Colombia Humana, and He even helped the current president’s campaign in Casanare.
This is confirmed in videos of campaign events unearthed by Noticias Caracol, which took place in the rural areas of Yopal, the capital city of Casanare.
Even Fabio Vargas, a member of Colombia Humana, revealed that party members in the department knew who López and Navarro were, according to the newscast’s audio broadcast.
Peter’s Defense
In this context, he criticized Colombian president Noticias Caracol for the report, which he described as completely false.
“I’ve never performed in Yopal, no contribution from Casanare. “The people named here are not the directors of Colombia Humana or Pacto (Histórico, the governing coalition),” he said.
According to Petro, “the person responsible for the campaign in Casanare is called Sonia Bernal, not Sonia Navarro,” as the report appears, and asked “Colombia Humana to take judicial action” in response to the journalistic disclosure.