Guido Leonardo Croxatto, lawyer for the former president, Pedro Castillo, revealed that his patron read “the softest” of the up to seven coup speeches he had prepared.
In an interview for the Spanish newspaper El País, the lawyer of Argentine origin indicated that, speaking with the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, he told him that Castillo Terrones had “seven speeches” and considered that he “represents the original peoples, farmers”.
He also assured that the then president did not want to share the speech with his state ministers, but “simply read it.” When asked who wrote the speech, he only managed to say that the authorship falls “on the popular bases, the people, as the former president says.”
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At another time, he considered that what was done by the rural teacher “is perhaps too advanced for this historical moment and we are not capable of understanding it.”
Finally, he questioned the ex-president’s vacancy and the crimes of conspiracy and rebellion charged by the Prosecutor’s Office, estimating that he only committed a constitutional infraction.