From the Editorial Staff

The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, September 14, 2024, p. 22

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said yesterday that a coup d’état will begin next Monday, when the National Electoral Commission (CNE) determines whether to investigate him for an alleged violation of limits on the financing of his campaign in 2022.

On Monday the necktie strike begins. On Saturday we will meet with the National Popular Assembly at the National University. I believe that we will live through the days of a historic popular decision: whether we return to the past of the shooting of young people and the enormous theft of the State, or whether we commit ourselves to democracy, peace and life.the president warned on social network X.

At the National University in Bogotá, under the premise Yes to democracy, no to the coup!the sectors related to Petro will meet today and tomorrow to discuss the axes that will “strengthen the government of change in the time that remains, and how confront the right-wing coup.

The CNE, the entity in charge of investigating political parties, said that during Petro’s campaign, the economic limits were exceeded by more than 1,234,000 dollars.

The progressive leader warned that the coup would not be military, but institutional, and has repeatedly called on the population to mobilize in defense of democracy and his government.

It is not a military uprising but an institutional one

No friends, the coup will not be carried out with soldiers, who all have orders from their constitutional commander not to raise a single weapon against the people. It will be carried out with ties and desks, and this is the proof. They had to unconstitutionally remove the president’s immunity to begin the coup, and it begins on Monday.wrote.

There is an order to assassinate the progressive

Rivers of money flowthe president said on Thursday, so that the House of Representatives Accusations Committee would remove him from office and appoint the president of the Senate, Efraín Cepeda, in his place, and he assured that organized crime gave the order to assassinate him within a period of three months.

Given this scenario, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America indicated that it continues with attention and concern the accusations recently made by the Colombian president, while he said that from the first day, The oligarchy that ruled Colombia for decades has tried to corner the president.

According to the bloc, this alleged plan is to prevent Petro from carrying out its sovereign and progressive government project that seeks to achieve the peace and human development that the Colombian people so long for and deserve.