Colombia, audio leaking reveals strategy to overthrow president Gustavo Petro

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In Colombia, the leak of audio recordings in a Spanish media in which former Colombian Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva and right-wing groups in Colombia and the United States are part of a strategy to overthrow President Gustavo Petro has sparked several reactions. teleSUR

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00:00And in Colombia, the leak of audio recordings in Spanish media in which former Colombian

00:04Foreign Minister Álvaro Leiva and right-wing groups in Colombia and the United States

00:08are part of a strategy to overthrow President Gustavo Petro has sparked several reactions.

00:13Our correspondent, Dan Tobar, has all the details.

00:18The leaking of audio recordings of former Colombian Foreign Minister Álvaro Leiva

00:23has brought back to the table the already repeated allegations of a strategy to overthrow

00:27President Petro, in which Colombian politicians, including members of the current government,

00:32and even the United States are allegedly involved.

00:34The president reacted almost immediately.

00:42What this shows is that we still need to investigate the implication of the people he names.

00:47But let's say that the plot that Álvaro Leiva is hatching is nothing more than a conspiracy

00:51with drug traffickers and the extreme right, apparently Colombian, and from the United States

00:55to overthrow the president of change in Colombia.

01:03All the people he names there, whom I do not know if what he says is true or not,

01:08must give explanations not only in public politics, but also before the courts.

01:11Among the United States individuals identified is a Republican senator alleged to have met

01:26with representatives of Colombia's right-wing parties.

01:30For some representatives of the political forces allied with President Petro, there is

01:33no doubt that this is a coup, tad, and they have called for a legal review.

01:36As a member of the government bench and as chair of the second committee that handles

01:46security, defense, and international affairs,

01:49we will immediately request a political control debate in a closed session to be attended by

01:56the Ministry of Defense, the Foreign Ministry, and the National Intelligence Directorate so

02:00that they can provide us with explanations of what is happening.

02:07What resources do we have in Colombia to defend democracy, and what are the next steps to

02:11understand these names that have appeared in these audio recordings, what role are they

02:14playing in the destabilization of democracy?

02:16For her part, the vice president also mentioned in the leaked audio recordings, submitted a request

02:31to the prosecutor's office to investigate these events, but not before denying her involvement

02:36in a plan to undermine democracy.

02:38Likewise, former foreign minister Leyva assured that he never conspired to overthrow the president

02:42and argued that his comments were part of a private conversation in which he did not refer

02:47to any plan to overthrow the Colombian executive.

02:50Statements that were not well received by some sectors.

02:54Leyva represents the interests of economic classes that manage to blame all evils and conflicts

03:02on the president.

03:02Because the issue is not the president, the issue is how to end an alternative project

03:13for a country that has the right to rethink its economy and its international relations.

03:22From the foreign ministry, the current head of this portfolio, Laura Sarabia, assured that

03:28no attempt to disrupt institutionality or the presidential term can be allowed.

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