The executive secretary of ALBA-TCP, Jorge Arreaza, had previously denounced the move last Tuesday on his Telegram account, following Petro’s exposure of the attempt.

Arreaza called for “respect for the democratic will of the Colombian people and to neutralize this institutional and oligarchic coup d’état attempt”.

He recalled ALBA-TCP’s warning of September 13, about “the latent and imminent risk of a coup d’état in Colombia”, based on Petro’s denunciations.

Back then, the organization noted that Latin America and the Caribbean “have witnessed a number of destabilization attempts” this year, by means of continuous attacks on the institutional bodies of several countries and direct threats against grass roots leaders and democratically elected politicians.

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