President Gustavo Petro assured this Tuesday, February 10, that there was a conspiracy to attack the air vehicle in which he was traveling, which is why he delayed his arrival to the department of Córdoba (northern Colombia), hit by floods for a few days. "I come from two days not in the arms of love, but escaping from being killed," said the president.
First modification: 02/11/2026 - 03:34
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, denounced on Tuesday, February 10, a plan to attack his integrity that prevented him from arriving in the Caribbean department of Córdoba on Monday for fear of "an attack against the helicopter" in which he was traveling with his children.
"I have to confess here, to say it, that I have come from two days not in the arms of love, but rather escaping from being killed," Petro said in Montería, the departmental capital, where he presides over a council of ministers focused on the floods affecting northwest Colombia.
According to Petro, that is why last night he could not reach Montería, where he was expected, since after two hours of flight there were no safe conditions for the landing of the presidential helicopter, so the device had to fly out to sea.
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"On the other hand, in the morning I did not land where I had to land because I had (information that) they were going to shoot at the helicopter, with my children too, and I did what I know how to do, so we took the open sea for four hours and I arrived where I did not have to arrive, but I arrived," he stated.
The president did not give details of his tour, which apparently began on Gorgona Island, in the Pacific, where, according to what he said today in his X account, he was yesterday before traveling to Montería, on the Atlantic coast.
No authority from the security agencies has reported the alleged plan to attack the president.
Throughout his mandate, which began on August 7, 2022, the Colombian president has several times denounced attack plans against him.
In September 2024, he indicated that the United States Anti-Drug Agency (DEA), through that country's ambassador in Bogotá, alerted him of an alleged plan to assassinate him before ending that year in an attack with a truck loaded with dynamite.
Petro also indicated on Tuesday that before the meeting on February 3 at the White House with the President of the United States, Donald Trump, he ordered the removal from service of a Police general who, he said, "someone gave the order" to put "psychoactive substances" in one of the official vehicles where he travels, with the aim of "destroying" the crucial meeting in Washington.
"That puts me in a situation of alarm," added the president.
With EFE
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