Bogota, September 20 (RHC)-- The Ambassador of the United States in Colombia, Francisco Palmieri, said in an interview that it is true that there is a magnicida plan against the president of the nation, Gustavo Petro.

In statements to the media RTVC Noticias, Palmieri said that "there is a plan to attack President Gustavo Petro, which is also known to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)”.

In this regard, he indicated that the DEA provided elements that confirm the information previously provided by the Colombian president, who had denounced the existence of a plan to kill him with a truck loaded with explosives.

The truck would be financed from Dubai, to which is added a plot containing the purchase of rifles.  The president also contrasted the context with the coup d’état in Chile and the purpose of destabilizing his government.

Earlier, the manager of the Public Media System of the radio and television service of Colombia (RTVC), Hollman Morris, in an interview with the religious and political leader, Alfredo Saade, mentioned a plan that aims to poison the Colombian president.

Saade claimed that the poisoning was being planned so that the death would appear to be a drug overdose, and alleged that the information came from confidential sources in a nation near Colombia.