Politicians know that it is their colleagues from the opposition who are losing sleep, as it seems to have happened a few years ago to Pedro Sánchez with Pablo Iglesias, but sometimes they get distracted and it turns out that their professional risk, who really threatens them are their relatives, and sometimes the closest. This is what is happening these days to two American presidents, elected by the majority of the citizens, but the continuity in their positions is in danger due to the suspicious conduct of no less than… their children!
One of them is Joe Biden himself, who already reached the White House avoiding accusations of corruption in his professional businesses of his firstborn – the result of his marriage to his first wife Neilia Hunter Biden.. Those suspicions, which in the end were avoided during the electoral campaign against Trump, are now prospering again with greater force in the face of the controversial claims of his own Democratic followers facing re-election next year.
More serious due to the urgency and seriousness of the facts is the ethical obligation to present his resignation faced by the recently elected president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, whose eldest son and closest collaborator, Nicolás, deputy from the Atlantic and now detained in Bogotá, has recognized before the judges that his father managed to win the position thanks to the financial support of drug trafficking that he received during the electoral campaign. It is obvious to add that the charge is very serious and the scandal transcends the daily political struggle.
Colombia has long suffered from the stigma of being one of the capitals of drug trafficking and the confirmation that the President of the Republic himself is one of its beneficiaries further tarnishes the image and international respect that the country was recovering thanks to the fight against criminal production and export that previous governments were achieving. Sometimes, sad to admit, the most dangerous enemy is not sitting on the benches of the Parliament, he lives in his own house.