They publish audios that prove the participation of a drug trafficker's wife in Petro's campaign

Noticias Caracol has published this Tuesday a series of audios that could be proof of the contribution of drug trafficking to Gustavo Petro's presidential campaign. These are conversations between Sandra Navarro, wife of drug trafficker Juan Carlos López, who shows that she supported logistically and contributed money to the promotion of Petro in the Colombian department of Casanare (eastern part of the country).

This is clear from an investigation by the Colombian news, in which audios of conversations intercepted by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Police and the Prosecutor's Office were published.

In one of them – between Navarro and Sonia Bernal, who was a congressional candidate for the leftist coalition Historic Pact and today works as deputy director of Government, Territorial Management and Fight against Trafficking of the Ministry of the Interior – the women discuss an amount of money that the former will leave for the campaign in a place known as “Casa Petro” in Yopal, capital of Casanare.

The audios also show how the drug trafficker's wife lent vehicles to transport former senator Gustavo Bolívar, who is today a candidate for Mayor of Bogotá; the vice president, Francia Márquez, or the congresswoman Katherine Miranda at campaign events in Casanare.

Likewise, the investigation reveals that Navarro collaborated with Petro's campaign in Casanare for at least six months, during which he even showed his annoyance at the number of favors they asked of him.

This report is a complement to the one presented on August 13 in which Noticias Caracol revealed that even a Petro campaign event was held at the house of López, known by the alias “Sobrino” and who after paying a fine in the United States for drug trafficking he was also convicted in Colombia.

López, a repeat criminal

Drug trafficker López was arrested again in June last year, just a few days after Petro won the elections, as the leader of a criminal gang.

This whole case has become known after Nicolás Petro Burgos, the first-born son of the head of state, acknowledged before the Prosecutor's Office that he received money of illicit origin and that part of it supposedly entered Petro's presidential campaign in 2022, although he clarified that his father I didn't know.

The National Electoral Council (CNE) must investigate whether that money was registered by Petro's presidential campaign and, in this way, determine whether the then candidate knew or not.

The Prosecutor's Office presented an accusation of illicit enrichment and money laundering against the president's son on Monday, for which he will go to trial.