(18 Feb 2025)
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Bogota, Colombia – 18 February 2025
1. Various of Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s arrival
2. Various of ceremony for Colombia’s new National Police Director
3. Petro and guests at the ceremony
4. Petro swearing in new Police Director
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia:
"You know that they want to shoot a missile at my plane which the drug traffickers bought and have stored somewhere? Not one, but two missiles. We know who they are, and we have to act."
6. Stand
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia:
"Why do they want to bring me down quickly? Because they know that we are after the big mafias in Colombia. And that can be scary. Yes, of course it’s scary. The ELN (National Liberation army) is one of the big mafias in Colombia."
8. Various of Petro reviewing police troops
9. Various of ceremony
STORYLINE:
Colombian President Gustavo Petro warned on Tuesday that drug traffickers may have missiles in their possession ready to attack his presidential plane in a bid to stop his mandate and a crackdown on drug trafficking.
‘Do you know that they want to fire a missile at my plane, which the drug traffickers bought and have stored somewhere?’ Petro said at a ceremony to recognise the new police director, Brigadier General Carlos Fernando Triana Beltran.
‘Not one, but two missiles, we know who they are,’ Petro added, without naming names or pointing to criminal structures that in his opinion want to “bring him down quickly, because they know we are after the big mafias of Colombia.”
Petro, the first left-leaning president in the country’s history, has received threats through social networks since he took office in 2022, according to what he himself has denounced to the prosecutor’s office.
In his speech, Petro charged the new police director with fighting drug trafficking and especially smuggling, which he considers to be the ‘other face of drug trafficking’ as it is used to launder assets.
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