In a really arduous letter revealed in his X account, the Colombian former Chancellor, Álvaro Leyva stated on Wednesday that the president Gustavo Petro has an issue with drug habit. He argued that he discovered him throughout an official go to to France in June 2023, the place he says The President “disappeared two days”.
“It was in Paris the place I used to be in a position to affirm that they’d the issue of drug habit. However what might I do? I used to be positive I used to be decrease. I’ve to method, assist, go to in time. I’m punished to not attempt to prolong his hand. The reality is that you’ve by no means answered. It’s like that. His restoration didn’t happen, “stated Leyva in a 4 -page letter revealed in X and despatched to the Colombia’s presidency yesterday.
The previous Chancellor added that on this journey to Paris on the summit for a New World Monetary Pact, which was convened by French President Emmanuel Macron. Petro “disappeared two days” and he was “the primary witness” of details that also produce “discomfort and confusion”.
“One in every of them, the event once they disappeared two days in Paris throughout an official go to. As if the French secret providers have been incompetent to not know their whereabouts. Pregnant moments for me as an individual and as a chancellor. And way more than I knew the place I used to be“Says Leyva.
Citizen, citizen
I permit you, the letter that I yesterday on April 22nd of the present 12 months to the President of the Republic, Dr. Gustavo Petro Urego, introduced. I add the receipt within the presidency, 1:52 p.m. pic.twitter.com/5xm7qhwuky
– Álvaro Leyva Durán (@alvaroleyva) April 23, 2025
Based on Leyva, frequent delays or absences from Petro public occasions are additionally attributable to this alleged downside with medicine. In addition to complicated feedback that usually fail in X.
“His disappearance, late arrivals, unacceptable violations, journeys which have questioned an absence of, incoherent phrases, firms, in response to some and others, have registered and continued to register,” he continued in his submit.
In one other passage, he argues that he tried throughout his overseas overseas coverage, however was filtered always Laura SarabiaOne in every of Petro’s reliable folks and who even reads a private position. “I understood that she was the proprietor of her time, from a few of her personal duties, and as well as, I’ve met some private wants “He shot his letter.
Within the publication within the social community X Leyva, Petro abuse of energy and the tone that was utilized in some public and social networks additionally criticized.
“His current public interventions unexpectedly with pointless threats that qualify their contradictions inappropriately, a few of criminals with out being, much more than as soon as that he sees them as a menace to the lifetime of many fellow residents, represents a abuse of energy that’s led by the state that they’ve,” stated Leyva.
June 2023, Gustavo Petro with French President Emmanuel Macron, throughout one of many occasions on the Paris tour on which the Colombian would have misplaced (Ludovic Marin)Leyva, who was appointed Prime Minister by Petro, when he reached the presidency Loneliness, nervousness, melancholy and different manifestations of adverse overcomingA excessive danger. “
Through the closure, he requested him to dismiss him from Sarabia, from Colombian ambassador to Venezuela Armando Benedetti or the President of the State of Ecopetrol, Ricardo Roa Barragán. “It means by those that have been kidnapped. Imagine me that the answer would go ahead with this measure “The previous chancellor ventured.
“In Colombia, Union, not the chaotic confrontation that was fed from the state headquarters, calls for president. We keep away from a social hearth amongst all. It’s doable,” he wrote.
Petro’s reply
In a primary response to the letter that Leyva says that he delivered within the Presidency of the Republic on Tuesday, Petro stated that on this journey to Paris on this journey, he was on the agenda as a result of he was as a result of I used to be in vacationer and household actions.
“Is it the Paris (sic) There are not any parks, museums, bookstores (sic), extra attention-grabbing than the author. Spend two days? Virtually every part in Paris is extra attention-grabbing, “stated the pinnacle of state in his X account.
Then he stated: “Is it that I haven’t got daughters in Paris, way more attention-grabbing than the author?” He implicitly stated to Leyva.
The one means for the press for public letters is to insult me. Not solely speaks badly of the author, however concerning the press.
Is it that Paris has no parks, museums and libraries which might be extra attention-grabbing than the author to spend two days? Virtually every part in Paris is extra attention-grabbing.
Is that …
– Gustavo Petro (@Petrogustavo) April 23, 2025
Politicians close to Petro criticized Leyva’s perspective on Wednesday and stated when he had information of the issues of the president He needed to remark when he was within the authorities and never later. Within the meantime, opposition votes require that the criticism of the previous boss of Colombian diplomacy is examined.
Leyva was Petros Overseas Prime Minister, a place wherein he was from August 7, 2022 to early 2024 when he left the federal government when he was suspended by the Common Prosecutor (Public Ministry) attributable to issues with a contract for the granting of passports.
It’s not the primary time that supposed petro issues are ventilated with medicine, as a result of in November 2023 the journalist María Jimena Duzán revealed a column within the journal change wherein she imposed this matter.
“President, you probably have an habit downside, I invite you respectfully to disclose it. Dependancy is a well being downside that impacts many Colombians and accepts that she is neither sinful nor an ethical failure,” Duzán wrote on this event.