2023-09-29 07:01:00
In an attempt to save his often-questioned presidential campaign from a new scandal, Gustavo Petro came out to deny the audios in which the alleged participation of Sandra Navarro, wife of drug trafficker Juan Carlos López, alias Sobrino, in the race in Casanare was revealed. . And in a fierce defense of the “enthusiastic collaborator,” as Colombia Humana referred to Navarro, President Petro once again attacked the media, pointing out that what they were seeking was to link his campaign to drug trafficking at any cost.
And this time it was journalist Ricardo Calderón, from the investigative unit of Noticias Caracol, who aired the controversial audios, the result of hours of recordings and interceptions to reveal the network of aliases Sobrino, in which the campaign apparently went. Navarro to provide money and even logistical support for the two presidential rounds. It took Petro a couple of days to take his cell phone and start tweeting about it. And in a fierce defense of the “collaborator” Navarro, he pointed out the media as “abusive” and in the process brought to light the actions of the drug trafficker’s wife.
The one that certain press has called “the drug trafficker’s wife” trying to abusively link my campaign to drug trafficking because she lent 800,000 pesos to the Casanare coordinator, was excluded by justice in the same investigation from which the audios of the… https://t.co/5lMnnxVtnm
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo)
September 28, 2023
“The one that certain press has called ‘the drug trafficker’s wife’, trying to abusively link my campaign to drug trafficking because she lent 800,000 pesos to the Casanare coordinator, was excluded by justice in the same investigation from which the audio recordings were taken. . “A certain press commits a huge offense against a woman who in the eyes of justice is innocent,” Petro said in her X account.
Although the president did not directly mention Noticias Caracol, it was not necessary because his message was accompanied by the publication of the media in question in which they explained the role that the boss’s wife played in the Petro campaign in Casanare.
The recordings that they present as alleged evidence against the Historical Pact Campaign are part of an investigation of more than 14,000 interceptions that concluded on February 6 of this year that Mrs. Navarro had no relationship with illicit activities.
If justice… pic.twitter.com/EIAQ7Gymcr
— María Paula Fonseca Gómez (@MaPaulaFonseca)
September 28, 2023
And the entire government joined this trend. A few hours after Petro’s tweet, María Paula Fonseca, Palacio’s communications advisor, shared a message on her X account to explain that the investigation referred to by Caracol concluded on February 6 that Navarro had no relationship with her husband’s illicit activities and even attached supporting documents. The RTVC News did the same in its midday edition, which they dedicated to showing the rest of the documents in favor of the boss’s wife.
But not only those in the government trilled to defend Petro’s campaign for the Presidency. After the revelations in the audios about the alleged drug financing of the campaign of the now Head of State in Casanare, a smear campaign was reactivated on social networks against Caracol Noticias and against journalist Ricardo Calderón.
So much so that the hashtag #CaracolMiente became a trend right after the report that aired on September 26. Added to this were attacks on the journalist and a campaign to distort the investigation. To better illustrate the situation, at 12 noon, while the Caracol Noticias broadcast published the audios of Sandra Navarro, on quickly. The reason is that that same day the Government was focused on putting pressure on the marches of September 27, to which they put all their muscle and moved all the machinery so that Petro could once again see support in the streets.
For example, several of their candidates such as Gustavo Bolívar invited them to go out and march and accompany with the hashtag #27SPorLaVida, which began to double and reach approximately 219,000 mentions, while Caracol reached approximately 204,200. Added to this is the strong digital strategy that was also moved from the accounts of all ministries. Although the activity was mainly on
In that period of time, between September 26 and 27, 400 mentions of #27SPorLaVida and 200 for #CaracolMiente were registered in Angola, as well as Mongolia with approximately 100 mentions. Meanwhile in Colombia, a trend of 66,000 mentions of #CaracolMiente continued.
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