President Petro denounces drug trafficking threats of missile attack on presidential plane

Published at: 18/02/2025 10:08 PM

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, denounced this Tuesday, February 18, during an event at the General Francisco de Paula Santander Cadet School, in Bogotá, that they intend to attack the presidential plane using missiles purchased by drug trafficking mafias.

“They want to fire a missile at me, at my plane. (It's a missile) that drug traffickers bought and that they have stashed out there. Not one, but two missiles. We know who they are, but we have to act,” he stressed during the transition from police headquarters to Brigadier General Carlos Fernando Triana, who was inaugurated as the new leader of that institution.

Previously, the president had denounced the implementation of a plan to carry out an assassination.

“They want to knock 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,” he said.

Petro offered no details about the alleged plan to attack his plane.

In a review of the Telesur website, he points out that previously, the president had made similar complaints, since last September he stated that the United States Anti-Drug Agency (DEA), through the ambassador of that nation in Bogotá, warned of an alleged plan to assassinate him before the end of 2024 in an attack with a truck loaded with dynamite.

On that occasion, the president said that “the version arrived there, through the DEA, via ambassador.”

Also, when he was a presidential candidate in 2022, Petro reported that the criminal gang “La Cordillera” was trying to carry out an attack to assassinate him.