2023-07-31 12:03:56
The eldest son of President Gustavo Petro, Nicolás Petro Burgos, was captured due to the investigation that began on March 2, after his father, through a statement, asked the Attorney General’s Office to investigate him, after his ex-partner, Day Vásquez, accused him of having received money from two former drug traffickers for the 2022 presidential campaign, and that Petro Burgos had stayed. Attorney Margarita Cabello also announced that she opened an investigation against the president’s eldest son.
Nicholas Petro and Gustavo Petro. Photo: Nicolás Petro on his Facebook account.
On June 21, 1986, in the municipality of Ciénaga de Oro (Córdoba), Nicolás Petro Burgos was born, the eldest son of President Gustavo Petro and Katia Burgos, his first wife. In this municipality he attended primary and secondary school and lived far from his father, who has said that he had to stay away from his family, because at that time he was a militant of the M-19 and put them in risk.
Petro Burgos studied Law at the Pontifical Bolivarian University, has a master’s degree in Climate Change from an Ibero-American university and a master’s degree in Government and Public Management for Latin America at Pompeu Fabra University, in Barcelona. Based in Barranquilla for several years, the eldest son of President Petro aspired to the governorship of Atlántico in 2018, being defeated by Elsa Noguera, which led, thanks to the opposition statute, to occupy a seat in the Department’s Assembly.
According to his profile on the Atlantic Assembly page, “the welfare of the Atlantic became a priority for him, leading him to take the reins of his father’s political movement, Colombia Humana.”
Petro Burgos, who also chose politics as a profession and destiny, although he is very close to his father, has also been critical of the political movement that Gustavo Petro has led for years. For example, in 2015, when they lost the elections to Enrique Peñalosa, he warned that the mayoralty of Bogotá was lost because “Human Bogotá governed with its back to its bases and locked up the people that elected them. This is not the time to go out and criticize Peñalosa or Cambio Radical, it is time for self-criticism, too many administrative errors.
Petro Burgos’s criticisms and questioning of his father’s work did not stop with his arrival as president of Colombia, so there have been many times that he has sent messages to President Petro from Twitter. Like the one he sent him in October 2022, when the tax reform was being discussed and the support of the Liberal party for the initiative of the national government was in suspense.
At the end of October 2022, Petro Burgos sent a message to his father again after the appointment of Olaya Requene as vice minister of talent and social appropriation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Through Twitter, she assured that, supposedly, the Char clan would be lying to her father, and said that the appointment is an insult to the ministerial cabinet.
Already in 2023, Nicolás Petro, also pulled his father’s ears for the purchase of new aircraft to replace the Kfir of the Colombian Air Force (FAC). Petro Burgos pointed out his dissatisfaction with the decision: “I do not agree with the purchase of combat aircraft.”
President Petro and his eldest son. Instagram.
Nicolás Petro Burgos has not been spared from scandals and controversies, and his life is under constant scrutiny by public opinion and the media, not only because he is the son of the President of the Republic, but also because of his political activity. One of the most notorious controversies that he has starred in began on January 5, 2023, when Musa Abraham Besaile Flórez published a photo on his social networks together with Petro Burgos, in which he assured that it had been a “pleasant visit” at his home. The image caused a furore because the deputy had questionable political alliances, taking into account that Besaile Flórez is the son of a former senator who is being prosecuted for parapolitics.
Five days later, the controversy grew due to a party that was held at the residence of the Burgos family, of which Katia Burgos, mother of the president’s eldest son, is a part. The celebration in Cienaga de Oro, Córdoba, featured vallenato performers such as Diego Daza and Luis Ángel Díaz; however, attention was captured by Jorge Gerlein, son of the late conservative ex-congressman, Jorge Alberto Gerlein, and nephew of Roberto, also deceased former senator.
These two events made Andrea Petro, her sister, question the political alliances her brother has. When she saw the photo of Musa Besaile Flórez, she asked the Colombians “not to put all the children of the president in the same bag.”
“If he messed it up, he did it alone,” said the daughter of the head of state and said that all members of the presidential family “have to set an example.”
Nicolás Petro Burgos with his father in a forum. Instagram.
The woman who lives in France also spoke exclusively for Semana magazine regarding her brother’s claims.
“It must be clear that as a presidential family we have the image of my father and that of a country. We have to set an example —he expressed to the media— That is what we will continue to do ”. Thus, she reiterated her message and stressed that she was not going to retract it, because it is what she thinks “as a sister and as a Colombian.”
In December 2022, Petro Burgos was sanctioned by the National Electoral Council (CNE) after two years of investigation for possible irregularities in the campaign to reach the governorship of Atlántico, and which he lost against Elsa Noguera in 2018. And a sentence was imposed on him. fine of 14,900,000 pesos.
“Once reviewed and observed the consolidated income and expense reports of the campaigns listed below the lists endorsed by the parties for the October 27, 2019 elections, we report that there is evidence of an alleged violation of Article 25 of Law 1475 of 2011″, reads a report from the National Financing Fund.
The CNE discovered that, despite the fact that the then candidate opened an account where 175 million would have been received, in Bancolombia, of these, he only handled one million pesos, so there were payments made from other accounts, in this sense. , the control body warned that the resources: “More than 174 million pesos were no longer managed through the single bank account.”
The presidential family. Instagram.
The last controversy involving Nicolás Petro Burgos broke out on March 2, 2023, when President Gustavo Petro asked the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate him, together with his uncle Juan Fernando Petro Urrego, and for the delicate accusations made by his ex-partner, Day Vásquez in Semana, which points out that he received money from two former drug traffickers for his father’s presidential campaign, and for which the Attorney General of the Republic, Margarita Cabello, ordered an investigation to be opened.
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