BOGOTA.-The political analyst Francisco “Pacho” Saintsformer vice president and diplomat of Colombia warned about the crossroads that his country faces in this Sunday’s elections. He warned that the leftist candidate, senator Ivan Cepeda, It is the “enemy” to defeat in the fight.
“Let’s not lose sight of the fact that the enemy is Cepeda,” Santos said in an article published Saturday in Week and in information disseminated on YouTube and on his Instagram account.
“It is very sad to call a presidential candidate an enemy. I have never done it, for the first time I use that term, and the reason is clear and forceful: Cepeda is an enemy of liberal democracy and freedom of expression, political freedom and freedom of enterprise. Let’s not fool ourselves. If he comes to power, we are going to have a constituent that ends the separation of powers, we are going to see massive expropriations without due process, and we are going to see justice that is used to silence the political or economic enemy,” he indicated. the analyst.
“It is not an abstract threat, it is the model that we already know,” he said.
Santos assured that the Uribe candidate Paloma Valencia “defeats Cepeda by a lot in the second round, with a margin that is not enough for them to steal the elections and drags the center that with Abelardo de La Espriella is reticent. With Paloma everything is coming. With Abelardo I don’t know.”
At this point, he said that if Abelardo de La Espriella goes to the second round in the elections, he is ready to carry suitcases, open doors and clean windows “as long as he wins, because what matters is the future of the country of my children and my granddaughters. The damage is done. I am ready to repair bridges.”
Foreign interference
In turn, former Vice President Santos warned that intelligence reports indicate that the election in Colombia It is not normal because “there is Cuban, Russian and Venezuelan interference in the Colombian electoral system with the protection of President Gustavo Petro.”
According to him, the reports also reported the preparation of “a social outbreak” in Cali, Medellín and Bogotá “with the release of front-line prisoners, leaders of criminal gangs and terrorist organizations, now peace managers, with one objective: to set the country on fire. Are Petro’s statements that the facades of houses are public space and that the police cannot intervene are a coincidence? No, it is the justification for this burning of cities that they are preparing.”
