The Self-Defense Forces of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta confirmed that a former candidate for Mayor in the capital of Magdalena sought to have ties with them in order to be victorious on the election day of Sunday, October 29, 2023.
This is Patricia Caicedo, who sought to reach the Mayor’s Office of Santa Marta with the Fuerza Ciudadana Party, led by Carlos Caicedo. The former candidate had denied links with any armed group in the region, however, the armed group confirmed, through a statement on social networks, that there was supposedly a rapprochement.
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It was through his X account that the criminal group, also known as Pachencas, They explained that Caicedo was in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in September 2023 along with his campaign team. It was there when the then candidate would have chosen to send her spokesperson Rosa Villalba to meet with the high command of the self-defense groups, in order to obtain support for her candidacy.
“We want to inform Public Opinion that Dr. PATRICIA CAICEDO, leader of Fuerza, was in the month of September in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta with her campaign team.; In addition to meeting with leaders of the area, he sent spokesperson ROSA VILLALBA to represent her to request support for her candidacy for mayor of Santa Marta before our political boss César Becerra, Alias Camilo,” the statement begins.
However, in the text, the Pachencas were clear that they did not provide support to either Caicedo’s candidate or another candidate before the regional elections of October 29, 2023. In fact, they confirmed that they gave support to some of the party’s candidates. Citizen Force in the region, but in 2019.
Likewise, the armed group assured that their response to the alleged offer from spokesperson Rosa Villalba was negative, and they also provided details about the controversy that exists around the alleged meeting between Patricia Caicedo and alias Camilo.
“It is important to clarify that as shown by several photographs revealed by national media, that if it was the same day and one of the leaders who met with Patricia Caicedo and who appears in one of the photographs is the person in charge of transferring voluntarily to Rosa Villalba before our political boss César Becerra alias Camilo to maintain communication,” the message on social networks states.
And after an image was known in which a representative of Fuerza Ciudadana was seen meeting with alias Camilo, Patricia Caicedo had assured through her social networks that she had never spoken with the paramilitary chief..
“I have never spoken with alias Camilo, I have never been in the same place with him, I have never met him,” the former candidate for Mayor of Santa Marta had assured on her social networks.
Besides, Villalba herself assured that the images through which the controversy arose are from a health day that took place in the region.but not from a political campaign, just as she has never been close to an armed actor.
“At no time along the road where we were, or on the farm scenes, was there any armed actor. And we managed to calmly take our meetings with photos that we had posted on the networks at that time of the campaign and they linked her to this Mr. Camilo. That’s where it worries me because I feel that more than an investigation into the truth of the facts it is trying to make mud,” said the former candidate for W Radio.
