Former President Juan Manuel Santos revealed that Officials from the government of President Iván Duque are “offering help” for the reelection in the United States of current President Donald Trump.
On Wednesday, during a discussion with the Colombian American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) about his book An optimistic message for a world in crisis”, He also said that the The Democratic Party of the United States, Trump’s rival, warned that this behavior “is an illegal act.”
According to Santos in that conversation, he received a call from Washington in which they warned him that spokesmen of the Duque government are calling to offer aid to Trump’s re-election campaign.
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“There is an aspect that worries me enormously, because they have called me from Washington and they have told me, you were the architect of bipartisan politics, there are spokesmen for the current Colombian government who are calling on the Trump campaign to see how they can help, ”said the former president.
“This is very serious,” added the former president, “because not only is it illegal, but it also generates a reaction from the Democratic Party, which already knows that this happens. and breaks bipartisan politics. “
There are spokespersons for the current Government of Colombia who are calling on the Trump campaign to see how they can help
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The former president also referred to the election of the new president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and He said that this situation generates a strong impact in Latin America, since, according to Santos, the United States is imposing it with the approval of the Colombian Government.
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“The imposition of an American candidate in the IDB by the United States, with the help of Colombia, is generating cracks not only in the long term with an institution that we are all going to need, precisely after the pandemic, because we are going to need a lot of funding, but in the United States, ”Santos Calderón pointed out.
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