Petro denounces an alleged assassination attempt against the helicopter he was traveling in.

Bogotá.- Colombian President Gustavo Petro denounced this Tuesday an alleged assassination plot against his integrity that prevented him from arriving on Monday to the Caribbean department of Córdoba for fear of “an attack against the helicopter” in which he was traveling with his children. “I have to confess here, say it, that I come from two days not in the arms of love, but escaping from being killed,” said Petro in Montería, the departmental capital, where he presides over a council of ministers focused on the floods affecting the northwest of Colombia. According to Petro, that’s why he couldn’t arrive in Montería last night, where he was expected, since after two hours of flight there were no security conditions for the landing of the presidential helicopter, which is why the aircraft had to fly out to sea.

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The assassination plot against Petro

“Instead, in the morning I didn’t land where I was supposed to land because I had (information that) the helicopter was going to be shot at, with my children as well, and I did what I know how to do, so we took to the open sea for four hours and arrived where I wasn’t supposed to arrive, but I arrived,” he affirmed. The president did not give details of his itinerary, which apparently began on Gorgona Island, in the Pacific, where, according to what he said today on his X account, he was yesterday before traveling to Montería, on the Atlantic coast. No security agency authorities have reported the discovery of an alleged plot to attack the president. Throughout his term, which began on August 7, 2022, the Colombian president has repeatedly denounced alleged assassination plots against him. In September 2024, it was reported that the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), through the ambassador of that country in Bogota, warned him of an alleged plan to assassinate him before the end of that year in an attack with a truck loaded with dynamite. You can also read: Petro also indicated today that before the meeting on February 3rd at the White House with the President of the United States, Donald Trump, he ordered the removal from service of a police general who, according to him, “someone gave him the order” to put “psychoactive substances” in one of the official vehicles where he travels, with the aim of “destroying” the crucial meeting in Washington. “That puts me on alert,” the president added.