The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, sent a letter from 23 June to his counterpart of the United States, …
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, sent a letter of 23 June to his counterpart of the United States, Donald Trump, where he explains his accusations against secretary of Frame Rubio Frame in an alleged conspiracy to commit a coup in Colombia.
The memorandum was posted on Monday In various Colombian media And Chancellor Laura Sarabia confirmed her authenticity.
CNN has requested comments from the White House about the letter.
“In recent weeks there has been an exchange of opinions between the office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and this presidency that achieved a public fame that deserves a serene and candid reflection. As chosen representatives of our peoples, we share the responsibility to be careful with our words and gestures, especially in agitation and wrong information,” said the Colombian president.
Petro tells Trump that “he was not going to point out to someone personally without presenting evidence” of an alleged participation of the US government in an alleged coup against him.
In the letter Petro notes that his intention has been to warn of possible destabilization plans: “I acknowledge that some of my words have been experienced as unnecessarily difficult,” he said.
Petro is looking for a dialogue with the government of Trump after the tensions of the last days, in which both leaders called their ambassadors, which indicates that “I mean that my intention is not to close doors, but to open paths for an honest and respectful conversation between our countries.”
Petro’s letter was sent a few days before both governments called their ambassadors after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the company manager and interim ambassador John McNamara, because of those he described as “unfounded and reprimanding explanations of the highest levels of the Colombian government.”
President Gustavo Petro responded equally and called Daniel García Peña, ambassador in Washington.
The diplomatic crisis, which has its origins in some audios published on Sunday by the Spanish newspaper El País in which Álvaro Leyva, former Petro Chancellor, is supposedly heard and speaks with a non -geïdentified person about a plan to turn the president.
Leyva acknowledged that it was his voice in the recordings in an interview with the magazine Semana. “I have an idea (who could have recorded the conversation), but I will not point to people because it can be charged tomorrow,” said Álvaro Leyva.
The Spanish newspaper published a report stating that Leyva was looking for support in Republican circles from the United States to get the Colombian president of power.
Although CNN has not been able to do the Audio -recordings and testimonies that have been cited by the medium to verify independently, the complaint has already had consequences in Colombia: the president reacted publicly, the office of the public prosecutor opened a formal investigation and vice -president Márquez, of which he also had the accusations.
Likewise, the president of Colombia spoke to Trump about the attack on the senator and candidate Presidential Miguel Uribe TurbayRejecting the accusations that his statements against Uribe were the trigger and emphasized that his government used all available means to clarify the facts and to protect the lives of all political sectors of the country.
“I am very worried that after the criminal attack on senator Miguel Uribay, he publicly hinted that the” violent rhetoric “of this presidency was the trigger for the attack,” the president said.
In his letter to Trump, the president of Colombia says “it is time to pass on the misunderstandings and look ahead,” and mentions the idea of bringing a top between the US and the community of Latin -American and Caribbean states (Celac) together to “sit as equals” and tackle the challenges with which the region is confronted.
“I am convinced that the American people, like the Colombian people, strive for a relationship based on mutual respect, sovereignty and justice,” said Petro, who concluded that “this is not a call to confront, but to share responsibility.”
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