Former Colombian Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva said on Wednesday that the president of the extreme left, Gustavo Petro, suffers from drug addiction in a very critical explosive letter with the members of Petro and key to his internal circle.
Leyva, who served as Petro Foreign Minister from August 2022 to May 2024, published a copy of the four -page letter on his personal Twitter account. In the letter, sealed as “received” by the Colombian presidency on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 22, Leyva expressed to Petro his concerns derived from the “direct knowledge that I have had and still have situations and facts” that affect Petro personally as head of state and, consequently, the country like everything. “
The former Foreign Minister said in the letter that “confirmed” the alleged duration of the drug addiction of Petro de Petro de Petro, an official visit to Paris, France.
“The memories that are still fresh in my mind of episodes that occurred when I was the first witness still made me feel restless and baffled,” Leyva said in the letter. “One of them, the time that disappeared for two days in Paris during an official visit. As if French intelligence were incompetent enough not to have known its whereabouts.”
“Shameful moments for me as a person and as a Minister of Foreign Affairs; and even more when I knew where you had bone,” he continued. “It hurts to say it today, late, but for my little and stubborn knowledge of episodes of similar behavior of you. It was in Paris that I could confirm that I had a drug addiction problem.”
Leyva continued asking: “But what could I do? Surely, it was inferior. I should have approached you, it helped you, it helped you in a timely way. I follow the repentance or not have tried to contact you.”
“The truth is that you never recovered. That’s right. Unfortunately, your recovery has no tasks placed,” he emphasized.
Petro, a hard -line leftist, has repeatedly requested the legalization of cocaine in public forums, even in the United Nations General Assembly. More recent, duration of a cabinet meeting broadcast nationwide in February, Petro described cocaine as “no worse than whiskey.”
Leyva did not specify which of Petro’s official trips to France was the one that “confirmed” the alleged drug addiction. Petro, the first leftist president of Colombia and former member of the Marxist terrorist group M19, has visited France four times since he assumed the position in August 2022, visiting Paris on three official trips to France.
Petro visited Paris as president from November 9 to 12, 2022, meeting With French president Emmanuel Macron at that time. In January 2023He visited Toulouse for a one -day trip and with local authorities. Petro then visited Paris in June 2023 And he extended his trip for an additional day cite appointment a “last minute” meeting. In June 2024Petro visited Paris again to accompany the Colombian delegation at the 2024 Olympic Games.
“Its disappearances, late arrivals, ineptitudes, non -complete ones, meaningless trips, incoherent phrases, the company questionable according to some and other supervision of their have and continuous registered, Mr. President,” it is well known that it has fallen into very frequent times of loneliness, anxiety, depression and other manifestness to overcome, some high risk. “
“All this is known by people very close to you who love you, esteem it, who feel personally attached to you but do not know what to do,” he continued. “They know and know, but their adhesive in feeling helpless rejected them.”
The former Foreign Minister also issued accusations against the current Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia and the current Interior Minister, Armando Benedetti, two highly controversial members of the Petro’s internal circle who were involved in several scandals – Including 2023 “Nannygate“Illegal Wiretapping and abuse of the power scandal.
Leyva said that the couple has “kidnapped” Petro and begged that “he dissociates those who have abused you, who have tasks of their very complex situation and that they have done and continue to make Terri rorm.”
The former Foreign Minister also said that Sarabia, “satisfied the needs of submissive” or the Colombian president.
“I assumed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with an unprepared spirit, with the desire to show off so that you become a continental leader and a worldwide hope. But from the beginning I was surprised that we could not sity or read The Forthine.
“When I went to look for you, Mrs. Sarabia … made me wait hours with the excuse you would do to me. Personal needs.”
The letter did not explain what “personal needs” Sarabia can be “satisfactory.”
Leyva explained that he falls on the main diplomat to appoint Benedetti as an ambassador of Venezuela, a position that occupied February 2024. Chordination to Leyva, Petro asked him to speak with Benedetti as ”, he made notes for work for work for work for work for work for work for work for work for work for work for work for work for work for work for work for work for work for work for work for work for work job.
“As if he were aware of his personal problems, he told me that [psychologist] Dr. Miguel Bettin had it on the other side. I commented. I understood for everything he said he was addicted to drugs. Bettin is a great professional with a huge reputation, “Leyva said.” From my interview with Benedetti, he concludes that he was a sick person. It remains the same, Mr. President. “
President Gustavo Petro responded to explosive accusations in a social media post claiming that his inexplicable absences were due to his commitment to his grandson.
“The only way the press will publish letters is to insult me. Not only speaks badly of the writer, but also of the press,” said Petro. “Does Paris don’t have more interesting parks, museums and bookstores than the writer, enough to spend two days? Almost everything in Paris is more interesting.”
“I don’t have daughters and Granddraagas in Paris who are much more interesting than the writer?” Hello Ash.
Petro’s daughter, Andrea Petro, seemed to justify Petro’s alleged disappearance in Paris in her own statement claiming that she was “disconnecting” and spending “family time, privacy, calm.”
“In France, my father found something strange in Colombia: family time, privacy, calm. His favorite hobby was to spend time with my daughters, being a grandfather without distractions,” said Andrea Petro’s message. “Guilty of disconnecting it a bit? I admit it. We were just looking for peace that is not allowed there.”
President Petro followed his daughter’s message with a separate statement.
“It is becoming a sin for me with my family. It has several of my children and my mother live abroad, and due to the persecution we suffer, I have very few opportunities to see them,” Petro said. “I did not think that this fact would unleash terrible suspicions in the people with whom I have shaped my hand.”
Petro did not elaborate what “persecution” suffers as the most powerful person in Colombia.
Christian K. Caruzo is a Venezuelan writer and documented life under socialism. You can follow it on Twitter Gentleman.