In the midst of the scandal facing Carlos Pinedo Cuello for some photographs revealed in the last few hours, where he appears meeting with a leader of self-defense groups, He also received good news related to the judicial decision that ratified him as mayor of Santa Marta.
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The pronouncement of State Council He denied all the claims of the Fuerza Ciudadana candidate, Jorge Agudelo, confirming that the legitimate leader of the capital of Magdalena is Pinedo Cuello. He was elected in an unprecedented administrative case in Colombia, in which the scrutiny commission annulled the votes of his opponent due to his late registration.
After studying the process, the magistrates They did not validate the plaintiff’s arguments and, on the contrary, they confirmed that the mayor of Santa Marta is Carlos Pinedo.
Carlos Pinedo maintains a strong dispute with Carlos Caicedo, former mayor of Santa Marta and head of Fuerza Ciudadana.
Photo:Taken from social networks
The president celebrated the news and stated that he always trusted in justice: “Justice has always ruled me right. A lie was woven here, a version that Mr. Agudelo had won the election, but the election is won when they hand you over the credential and that did not happen. Furthermore, he was winning by 240 votes; however, the elections had not been closed;. The guardianship arrives and annuls their votes because it is an irregular candidacy, and I am left competing with the other candidates whom I finally defeated with a wide difference in votes.“Pinedo explained.
Pinedo and Caicedo accuse each other of alleged support for the Self-Defense Forces
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Caicedo did not miss the opportunity to attack the president, who after 12 years took away the administrative power of the mayor of Santa Marta.
Everyone in Santa Marta knows that the family origin of that illegal mayor is from paramilitaries and parapolitics. His brother, several cousins and nephews. His friends, associates and financiers with the facade of businessmen are, in large part, drug traffickers.
with alias ‘Camilo’ it was not just a hug.
“Everyone in Santa Marta knows that the family origin of this illegal mayor is from paramilitaries and parapolitics. His brother, several cousins and nephews. His friends, associates and financiers with the facade of businessmen are, in large part, drug traffickers. Clans that plague the city and the department, those who with the money of those groups corrupted the justice system and the registry so that they were granted the election that the people and Fuerza Ciudadana won at the polls,” said Caicedo.
He also mentioned that for months he has denounced Pinedo’s alliances with narcoparamilitarism, the intimidation they exerted in rural areas during the campaign and the wave of crimes that was unleashed during their government.
“They are the happy compadres who kill and eat the dead; those who mock justice. Those who brag shamelessly about their own criminal origins. Will the country finally become aware of whose hands Santa Marta is in?” added the former governor.
Furthermore, he assured that the problem of violence that shakes Santa Marta is the responsibility of that alliance between the self-defense groups and the mayor’s office. “We expect measures from the national government and justice,” he concluded.
Pinedo’s response
“In this administration, alias ‘Camilo’ is in the custody of the authorities, as are aliases ‘Muñeca’ and ‘El Menor’, members of the Conquistadoras Self-Defense Forces of the Sierra Nevada,” commented Pinedo, who also reminded Caicedo that this Self-Defense group, in an official video, stated that it supported the candidacies for the Governorate of Magdalena and the Mayor’s Office of Santa Marta in 2019.
In the district president’s publication, he attached the video of the armed group’s statement that complements his accusation regarding the support that existed at the time with the Fuerza Ciudadana candidates.
The political issue is still hot in Santa Marta, however, the only concrete thing at this moment is that the city has its mayor ratified by the different legal bodies and his name is Carlos Pinedo Cuello.
