“Excuse me, but what have I done to you? I went to Venezuela, they took me out of here, I got 15 million bars (euros), I took you, I took everything to the son of a bitch Prisa, we held a hundred meetings… No, fagot, and the chief of staff receives me at three hours, like an ass. No », alleges the former Colombian ambassador to Caracas, Armando Benedetti, in one of the various conversations he has with Laura Sarabia that has been published by the magazine ‘Semana’.
The former campaign manager of Gustavo Petro, one of his closest supporters of the president, makes serious revelations in different calls to the former chief of staff and strong woman of the Palacio de Nariño until his dismissal last Friday. A man with an explosive character, who usually swears at his phrases when he is angry, considers that he has been ignored and that, instead of giving him a portfolio in the cabinet, Petro appointed him ambassador to the Chavista regime. As he was the main guru of the last presidential campaign and has been a person of maximum confidence of Petro, he threatens Sarabia with telling what he knows for treatment that in his opinion is inconsiderate and not at all consistent with his contribution to the victory of the first socialist president of Colombian history.
Benedetti has been a political chameleon. He went from being an uribista back in 2008 to the opposite shore: a staunch defender of Santos and his peace process in the following decade. He later joined Petro, to the annoyance of the most radical left, since he is a politician without a clear ideology and with investigations of corruption in his time in Santista.
The mention of Prisa in the audios could be related to Indra. It should be remembered that in Colombia the collection of electoral data is done by the National Registry. And before the last legislatures in March 2022, the election of Alexander Vega in the direction of said entity was very controversial because he considered that he could help the Historical Pact and, later, in that of Petro due to the ties that united them. A contract with the Spanish company Indra was also questioned and the General Prosecutor’s Office opened a preliminary investigation in May of last year for alleged irregularities and Vega’s links with the aforementioned company. According to opposition sources consulted by EL MUNDO, the investigations should have remained in a drawer because they never advanced and the foam of the scandal at that time subsided.
In addition to everything discussed with Sarabia, Armando Benedetti gave an interview to Vicky Dávila, who appeared yesterday on the website of the magazine ‘Semana’ that she directs. Among other revelations, she admits that she does cocaine and hints that she does, too, the president. He tells it in line with all kinds of rumors that have been around for a long time about the sudden absences of the Head of State, never clarified by his team, which can last a whole day. He has stood up to the military leadership, to 700 mayors, coming from the most distant points of Colombia, to a meeting that he himself called, to the Supreme Court of Justice and a long etcetera. Petro disappears, the Palace makes excuses that later turn out to be false, and no one knows for sure what happened. Only people from his narrow circle, to which Benedetti and Sarabia belonged, know the truth.
President Petro posted several messages on Twitter about the issue with Benedetti as if it were just a matter of personal differences.
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