The retired general Eduardo Enrique Zapateiro He was commander of the Army between December 2019 and the July 20, 2022. Zapateiro decided to leave before the change of government and after a series of criticisms that he sent to the then senator and candidate Gustavo Petro in the middle of the presidential campaign.
shoemaker He has become a great critic of the Petro administration and, due to these questions, there are those who speculate that he could be in favor of a coup, especially because of the calls he has made for active reserves. However, the former Army commander has said several times that he does not agree with this type of action and has always been in favor of the democratic path. And she reiterated it this same weekend.
“I am not the warmongering general that everyone thinks I am. There are responsible generals here, who understand the structure of the State. Here we are not going to carry out coups as they imagine,” said the general (r) Eduardo Zapateiroin an interview with ‘Semana’, and took the opportunity to send a message to President Gustavo Petro.
“That he rather concentrate on governing us in the way he has to govern us, what the Colombian people are waiting for, and that he do it with great detail,” he added.
It should be remembered that on January 16, on his Twitter account, General (r) Zapateiro made a call “to DEMOCRATICLY win at the POLLS”, ahead of the regional elections on October 29, 2023.
