The second and devastating letter published by former chancellor Álvaro Leyva Durán on his social networks, and addressed to the President of the Republic, Gustavo Petro, in which he accuses the head of state of being a “sick” for his alleged addiction to hallucinogenic substances such as cocaine, and in which he requested his resignation openly, continues to cause strong reactions. Like that of the exaspirant to the first position of the Nation Ingrid Betancourt, which in its social networks spoke on the day of Wednesday, May 7, 2025.
Betancourt, which has become a strong criticism of Petro, to the point of revealing unknown aspects of the personal life of the Head of Stateas his alleged depressive episodes when he was a diplomatic aggregate in Belgium, he did not let the opportunity opened by Leyva with these delicate complaints about matters of the Government’s spring, and issued his concept with a message with which, judging by its content, it would give complete credibility to what is expressed by the veteran exfunctionary. A publication that did not go unnoticed.
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“Leyva writes and describes. It is testimony and proof. Despite this, there are those who ask for evidence for Petro to leave the presidency. Testimonies and tests There is a crowd: I was the first to put the issue on the table, “Betancourt recalled, when he revealed in one of the television debates of the last presidential aspiration, in March 2022, on some of Petro’s behaviors that, according to her, represented clear signs about the inability of the leader of the historical pact to take the reins of the country.
In turn, in the continuity of his message, Betancourt reiterated his signs to Petro, presenting that some of his behaviors have been in the sight of all. “The country has seen it multiple occasions delirious in public. You cannot expect an addict and amoral president to have the necessary height to withdraw from office. Others do party while Colombia collapse. We must build union paths to deal with this ignominy, ”said the director of the Oxygen Party, declared in opposition to the Executive.
In the letter published in the early hours of Tuesday, May 6, Leyva made a series of accusations about Petro’s behaviors; and in addition to qualifying it as an entrance patienthe pointed out in some alleged breaches of the president in diplomatic visits, as in the Davos Economic Forum (Switzerland) and in Chile, during 2023; and the “shame” that would have been starring the president in Germany, when he apparently regretted the fall of the Berlin wall.
“Mr. President: You are sick. Your disappearance in Paris was the repetition of a behavior that revealed once again the seriousness of your condition. Of your addiction. So obvious what happened then that the events that occurred were confirmed with countless testimonies “, was one of the sections of the extensive communication of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, dismissed in May 2024 by the Attorney General’s Office, for overreach of functions in the controversial passport tender.
Nevertheless, What caused greater alarm among those who needed the letter, was its epiloguein which he suggested the need for the president to depart from the position due to the constant consumption of psychoactive substances, which would make him unworthy for the responsibilities that he must take in the 15 months remaining from the mandate. A situation that would be with the passage of the days unsustainable.
“President Gustavo Petro Urrego: It was time to review its permanence in the Presidency of the Republic. I aspired to tell him personally. Impossible. I am convinced, however, that you are emotionally prepared for it, because in your hours of full conscience, but desperate and in your distressing solitudes, and more, in depressions already suffered by you, you have surely come to reexamine your interior. (…) You have to proceed promptly. There is no time to lose, ”Leyva concluded in his letter.
