He did it after attending a Eucharist in the San José parish, located in the center of the city.
On the outskirts of the San José parish, in the center of the capital Antioquia, former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez launched strong criticism against the government of President Gustavo Petro, in a speech full of accusations and warnings about the current situation of the country.
His statements occur hours before Judge 44 penalty with knowledge function of Bogotá, issues a ruling that could define the political future of the ex -president, processed by the crimes of procedural fraud and bribery to witnesses.
Uribe compared the current government with the dictatorships of Venezuela and Cuba, and said that Colombia is going through a deterioration in security.
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He reiterated that his political movement has been the subject of threats and specifically pointed out the attack on Miguel Uribe, and the situation facing the candidates for the Presidency of the Republic, María Fernanda Cabal and Paloma Valencia. Similarly, he sympathized with the applicant Vicky Dávila.
Regarding crime and drug trafficking, Uribe questioned what he considers an official deceptive narrative about security. “They want to sell us the country as a safe territory, when reality is another. We go from having 600 municipalities Without violent facts to more than a thousand where there is violence today, ”he said.
The former president also referred to the situation of drug trafficking in Colombia, stating that more than 300,000 people currently depend on that illicit economy. In this context, he asked that the next president assumed on August 7, 2026, must rebuild the strategic alliance with the United States to face this scourge. He added that relationships with Israel must also be restored and working for peace with the Middle East.
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It was also the opportunity for former President Uribe to question the speech that President Petro delivered on July 20 to Congress, describing it as a mixture of “threats and illusions” disconnected from reality. He defended the achievements of his government in security, highlighting an alleged trend sustained downward In homicides during his mandate, a tendency that, according to him, has been reversed in recent years.
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As for the health system, Uribe said that the intervention of the Petro government to EPS has aggravated its situation instead of improving it, and criticized the insistence on a health reform that, in its opinion, the government wants to take it forward as a place.
During his speech, the ex -president made historical and literary references to reinforce his criticism. He mentioned Cuban leader Fidel Castro and recalled the figure of Che Guevara as a symbol of repression. He also alluded to the writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who said that “he believed in a Latin American intellectual illusion that turned out to be a hoax.” In addition, He spoke of the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, warning that “Colombia is on the path of kidnapping, to a submitted path.”
Despite the expectation generated by the imminent judicial ruling against him, Uribe avoided ruling in this regard, so he further increases the expectation for this Monday, when the result will really be known.
Source: Integrated information system
