(EFE) the last presidential campaign, annoyed by the treatment received in the Government.
Benedetti, a questioned politician who was fundamental in the campaign of today’s president Gustavo Petro, and decisive for his triumph on the Atlantic coast, sent a series of audio messages to Sarabia in recent days to express his disagreement with Petro’s delay in receiving it. , as published this Sunday by the magazine Week.
“What I’m telling you, Laura, is that this treatment (…) I did 100 meetings (…) 15,000 million pesos (about 3.5 million dollars), it’s more, if it’s not for me, no win (the elections),” Benedetti said in one of the audios, according to the magazine.
“What I’m telling you, Laura, is that this treatment (…) I did 100 meetings (…) 15,000 million pesos (about 3.5 million dollars), it’s more, if it’s not for me, no win (the elections)”, says Benedetti
The then ambassador in Caracas had arrived in Bogotá last Wednesday to speak with Petro after being pointed out as the person who leaked to the press the possible abuse of power in the case of the investigation of Marelbys Meza, who was the babysitter of the son de Sarabia and accused of stealing a briefcase with an unspecified sum of money from the house of the now former official.
However, Petro did not receive Benedetti that day, who interpreted this treatment as a humiliation, according to Weekand for this reason, she threatened Sarabia – who was her adviser in her time as a senator and who introduced her to the current president – to tell what she knows about the last presidential campaign.
“So, even if it’s a hypocrite, one goes and receives people, but the treatment that you and the president gave me yesterday, fagot, I don’t know, besides, what I’m going to tell you is not a threat (… ) I see that this can put me down, I kick you son of a bitch, and there we all fall down,” Benedetti told Sarabia.
In the messages, loaded with profanity and obscenities, published by the magazine, Benedetti reminds Sarabia of what he did to help Petro win the Presidency.
“I was the one who organized all the votes, son of a bitch, on the coast, all of them, son of a bitch, without them putting a peso and also that money went to the Pacific. Who sees that now? Nothing. Or do they want me to say, You son of a bitch, who was the one who put up the money? Don’t fuck with my life, don’t fuck with my life, because what happened yesterday and the day before (was) shit Laura, from you and from the president,” he adds.
In the same tone, he warns Sarabia, his former official, that if he is not treated well by the Government, that will bring consequences.
“Get ready because I claim my political space at any time and don’t do it so they can see, and if you think it’s a threat, it’s a threat and if you want to record it, record it, I explode because yesterday you mistreated me like shit and I don’t know that does to Benedetti”, he affirms in what was published by Semana.
“Get ready because at any time I claim my political space and don’t do it so they can see, and if you think it’s a threat, it’s a threat and if you want to record it, record it”
These messages were sent by Benedetti to Sarabia before Petro announced the departure of both from the Government in the midst of the worst crisis of his administration.
Sarabia is a young lawyer who worked with Benedetti when he was a senator and through him she came to Petro, to whom she was an adviser in the presidential campaign and later chief of staff, where she became one of the most powerful women in the country until the scandal over the illegal interrogation and interceptions of his ex-nanny was uncovered.
The content of the recordings caused immediate repudiation in political sectors and Benedetti later published a message on Twitter in which he assures that the audios were manipulated.
“The audios of the magazine Week they have been manipulated. I apologize to President Gustavo Petro and Laura Sarabia for the aggression and the malicious attack that does NOT come from me,” he said.
For his part, the former presidential candidate Federico Gutiérrez asked that Petro “resign” because in light of Benedetti’s revelations he considers that “the elections were stolen. They made all the cheats that have been and will be”.
“The shameful audios released today show that we are governed by a gang of riffraff,” said former conservative minister Juan Camilo Restrepo.
“I do not accept blackmail, nor do I see politics as a space for personal favors,” the president said in a lengthy tweet.
The Colombian president, for his part, assured that his electoral campaign did not receive money from drug trafficking nor has his government done anything illegal, in response to threats by former ambassador to Venezuela Armando Benedetti, that he can reveal secrets from the 2022 elections.
Petro said on his Twitter account that his government “has not accepted blackmail about public offices or contracts, nor has money from people linked to drug trafficking been received in the campaign, much less has figures such as 15,000 million been handled outside of our accounting.
“I do not accept blackmail, nor do I see politics as a space for personal favors,” the president said in a lengthy tweet.
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