President Petro sends a message to his son Nicolás in the middle of a political and family storm: "Hopefully we can forgive each other"

The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, assured this Saturday that what happened to his eldest son, Nicolás Petro Burgos, charged by the Prosecutor for money laundering and illicit enrichment, is “terrible” and he hoped that later they could reconcile this crisis that has caused the biggest scandal of his Government.

“What happened to my son is terrible and very unfortunate for me.. Hopefully one day I can talk to him and forgive us,” the head of state said on Twitter.

The relationship between father and son is not one of the best and the president has been widely criticized because last Saturday, upon learning of Nicolás's arrest, he distanced himself from him and published a tweet in which he stated that “so much self-destruction” hurts him and After wishing him luck, he pointed out that he hopes “that these events forge his character and that he can reflect on his own mistakes.”

This Saturday, in an interview with Semana magazine, Nicolás Petro confirmed that last Wednesday, in the midst of the political scandal, he did not want to receive a visit from his father in the bunker of the Prosecutor's Office in Bogotá where he was detained.

“I spent some time sending him messages through other people to talk to him and I never got a response,” said Petro Burgos.

Even last March, when Daysuris Vásquez, Nicolás Petro's ex-wife, revealed that he had received illicit money for his father's campaign and had stayed with him, the president also distanced himself from his eldest son by stating that he was not the one who gave it to him. child.

“He grew up in Córdoba (…) he studied there and did his university there, law; we never really had the opportunity to live together, I didn't raise him, that's the reality,” the president said at the time in an interview with Cambio magazine. .

The Municipal Criminal Judge 74 with functions of control of guarantees ordered on Friday in a hearing in Bogotá that Petro Burgos and Vásquez respond freely, but with restrictions, to the process they face for money laundering and other crimes, a case that has dotted the Colombian government.

The president also reiterated today that his 2022 campaign “did not receive any money of an illicit nature” and that he found out about what happened “through a meeting I had with Nicolás's ex-wife in my office just a few months ago when I asked that they investigate my son”.

“As I said before, as president I will not put pressure on justice in his case, the judicial officials who intervene in his process will be respected by me,” added the head of state.

The president ends his message by saying that he hopes that his grandson “will be able to meet his father in freedom”, something that he could not do with Nicolás because he was imprisoned as a member of the guerrilla group Movement on April 19 (M-19).

“I met Nicolás at the bars of my prison. Even in the most terrible thing, you learn that all my sons and daughters, including Nicolás and myself, can with this harsh experience be better human beings,” he added.

After his separation from Vásquez, from whom he has not officially divorced, Petro Burgos began a sentimental relationship with Laura Ojeda, who is now eight months pregnant.