“Traitors de la Patria”: Petro attacks opposition congressmen who make lobby ‘in the USA after condemning Uribe

President Gustavo Petro questioned congressmen, mainly of opposition, which according to him promotes an intrusion of the United States in Colombian justice, after the historic condemnation of former president Álvaro Uribe for the crimes of procedural fraud and bribery in criminal action.

During his speech on Tuesday, The president accused them of “destroying justice in Colombia” and called traitors of the homeland.

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“Disrespetan [a la justicia] Every day saying that he should not be imprisoned. I’m not going to get into that, nor am I saying yes or if not. But justice is respected in Colombia and the United States. Colombians who go there to destroy justice in Colombia are traitors to the country, not opposition. An opposition does not have that indignity, ”he said in his speech.

The president urged Uribe and his followers to defend himself before the judicial instances higher than the Office that made the decision against him in the first instance.

“That they defend themselves in the courts, they are in their right, as they want, and the judges must be free to decide, completely free. Do not judges with fear, do not judges thinking that they will kill them, or kneeling because in the networks and in the press they insinuate that they will kill them for doing justice in Colombia. Thus we will kill all all, because for there must be justice, and justice is what he speaks in Colombia, whatever his decision. This president will protect them”He emphasized.

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Previously, in a message posted on his X account, the president used other strong terms to refer to those who, according to him, They try to exercise pressures on the judicial system. At that time he called them stateless.

“Those who go outside, the US, to speak with the extreme right so that from there the Colombian justice is pressed, they are stateless. They cannot be called opposition members, but traitors to Colombia. Those who go to the United States to make ‘lobby’ van are against justice and against Colombia,” said the head of state.