Although she did not have to see her brother Álvaro’s 14-year sentence in the United States, she did live his testimony in which he accepted having trafficked, something that she always denied.
The capture of his brother Álvaro It was one of the hardest blows he suffered. Piedad Córdoba in his last years of life. He was arrested on February 2, 2022 when she promoted her campaign for the Senate for the list of the Historical Pact while also supporting the campaign of Gustavo Petro for president.
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Álvaro Córdoba was arrested by Interpol. A New York court requested it for the crimes of drug and arms trafficking, they also accused him of conspiracy to commit a crime. Piedad Córdoba put her hands in the fire for him since the capture became known. In public and in private he always defended him. Piedad denounced at the time that the arrest of his brother was a persecution against him for his return to politics.
In those days Piedad was sick. She had been sick for a long time. Among the various ailments that brought her to the clinic on some occasions, Piedad Córdoba had a severe urinary infection and in her last years she lived with thrombosis. But her brother’s situation weakened her even more. Everything got complicated on September 7, 2022. A month after Gustavo Petro took office as president signed the extradition of Álvaro Córdoba to the United States. Piedad Córdoba got worse.
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After the signing of the extradition, relations between Piedad Córdoba and Gustavo Petro broke down. They had already broken months ago, before the first round vote, when Petro himself had asked Piedad to step aside from the presidential campaign, due to the legal accusations that were being made against him. Piedad Córdoba was in the eye of controversy for her alleged links with Alex Saab, the Barranquilla businessman accused of being Nicolás Maduro’s front man.
The fatal blow for Piedad was Álvaro Córdoba’s confession. Before the Federal Court of the Southern District of New York he admitted having brought cocaine to the United States. Piedad Córdoba could not handle the acceptance of her beloved brother as a drug trafficker. At that time there was talk that Álvaro Córdoba could be sentenced to more than 30 years in prison. The then senator entered a deep and critical depression from which he could not get out. He locked himself in the room of his house in Medellín and died there 18 days after receiving that last big blow. A devastating heart attack took Piedad Córdoba on January 20, 2024.
With the pain of having lost the woman who risked everything for him, Álvaro Córdoba will have to spend 14 years in a gringo prison. That was the sentence imposed on him by the American court. Sentence that was issued this April 26, 2024, a news that the strong Piedad Córdoba did not want to receive.
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