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Colombian President Gustavo Petro has accused drug trafficking gangs of being responsible for the assassination attempt on opposition candidate and political rival Miguel Uribe.
"It is a hypothesis, but with very strong evidence that has reached the highest leaders of the opposition but also to us, that the author of the attack is the international mafia. The killers seek to eliminate each other, weaken the state and strengthen control over the illegal economy. Within the drug trafficking junta based in Dubai and Colombia are the people whom I revealed to the country by name ," he said.
In recent months, the Colombian president has denounced a plot to assassinate him, citing unknown actors. "The new drug trafficking junta," was his response.
According to the Colombian president, it is a criminal network that runs the main illegal cocaine businesses in Latin America from the United Arab Emirates. Without official confirmation of their existence, the president has insisted that they are the bosses who control crime in Colombia under the orders of Julio Lozano Pirateque, otherwise known as Patricia, an emerald merchant residing in the Arab country and a rival of Victor Carranza.
The “junta” was at the center of the presidential speech on June 2, in which Petro resurfaced after 48 hours of silence. On the social network X, he said he was hiding to protect his life, facing what he called a multinational structure made up of Spaniards, Albanians, Mexicans, Italians, Colombians and a Paraguayan, with connections in politics, the Attorney General’s Office and the Police in Colombia, El Pais writes .
He also said that this criminal structure has tentacles in other countries.
" More than 185 electoral candidates were killed in Mexico and Ecuador, including a presidential candidate. We are facing an offensive to take control of the state in much of Latin America by the mafia ," he wrote on Tuesday.
At a meeting of the Council of Ministers on February 4, Petro claimed that there have been four assassination attempts against him since he became president on August 7, 2022. He spoke of the purchase of missiles to shoot down his plane, a plan to blow up a truck loaded with dynamite, and the installation of snipers near the Casa de Nariño, the presidential palace in Bogotá. He also accused the “junta” of being behind the assassination of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci in Cartagena de Indias in 2022, and similar assassinations in Bogotá of two emerald miners, Juan Sebastián Aguilar, Pedro Pechuga, and Hernando Sánchez.
A government source explains that this information suggests that the junta includes high-level drug traffickers, such as Uruguayan Sebastián Marset, a fugitive from justice and accused of consolidating the First Uruguayan Cartel (PCU), a transnational organization with influence in that country, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil. According to the specialized media Insight Crime, Marset represents a new generation of South American drug traffickers who operate with sophisticated methods and transcontinental networks and is believed to be behind the murder of prosecutor Marcelo Pecci. In 2021, he was arrested in Dubai for a forged passport, but was later released.
The French daily El Pais also writes that the information that has reached the Colombian president also includes Dritan Gjika, an Albanian who consolidated a cocaine trafficking network from Ecuador and was captured on May 25 in Abu Dhabi. The neighboring country has requested his extradition to face charges of drug trafficking, money laundering and organized crime. He is considered one of the main architects of the expansion of the Albanian mafia in Latin America and key in transforming the port of Guayaquil into part of the cocaine export route to Europe, in an operation that involved Colombian, Ecuadorian and European partners.
Another name mentioned by the presidential office when mentioning the new board is Alejandro Salgado Vega, known as El Tigre. He is Spain's most wanted drug trafficker, who is said to be hiding in Dubai. According to the Spanish Anti-Drug Prosecutor's Office, he is part of a network that trafficked large quantities of cocaine hidden in pineapples between 2020 and 2021.
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