The American senators Bernie Moreno and Rubén Gallego, visiting Colombia, met Thursday with five presidential candidates to analyze the bilateral relationship and the Colombian political landscape for next year’s elections.
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The meeting took place in Cartagena de Indias and in addition to Moreno, a republican senator of Ohio, and Gallego, a Democrat of Arizona, attended the head of the US diplomatic mission. UU. In Colombia, John T. McNamara, and Daniel Newlin, an ambassador to the country by President Donald Trump.
“In Cartagena (…) we held a constructive dialogue about Colombia’s great challenges in security, fight against drug trafficking, poverty and migration, and how to strengthen cooperation with the United States”said in his X account the journalist Vicky Dávila, who will seek the presidency as leader of the Valientes Movement, of the right.
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This meeting was also attended María Fernanda Cabal, of the right Uribista Democratic Center; Claudia Lópezof the unstoppable citizen movement; The independent Juan Daniel Oviedo, of the movement with all for Colombia, and Gustavo Bolívarof the historical pact.
“I expressed the concerns we have in the country and the danger that our democracy runs”he stated full about the encounter with the American senators, both of Colombian origin.
For his part, Claudia López, who was mayor of Bogotá, thanked Moreno and Gallego “For his appreciation and interest in Colombia” And he stressed that between the two countries there are “Common interests”.
Among those highlighted “Respect our institutions, citizens and their decisions; cooperate effectively to lower poverty, inequality and crime and raise opportunities, development, work and legal exports; combat organized crime and the criminal dictatorship of (Nicolás) mature and make freedom and democracy in Venezuela” return in Venezuela “.
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The meeting occurred three days after the death of the senator and presidential candidate opponent Miguel Uribe Turbay, of the Democratic Center, after two months in critical condition due to the bullet wounds he suffered in the head during an attack perpetrated on June 7 in Bogotá.
Uribe Turbay, whose funeral Moreno, McNamara and the Undersecretary of State of the United States, Christopher Landau, attended, Christopher Landau, He was starting his electoral campaign acts when he was target the attack.
Colombia, who will celebrate legislative elections on March 8, 2026 and presidential on May 31, lives a tense political climate for the murder of Uribe Turbay, the shot attack in which the representative to the Chamber Julio César Triana, of the right -wing party of Radical Change, and for the accusations of the government and the opposition for the extreme polarization of the political discourse of a political discourse of part and part.
EFE
