'We got a president and we got friends': mafia to Colombia's ruling party

Party chief Ivan Aguilar (L), Senator Alvaro Uribe (C) and Jose Guillermo Hernandez. (Image: Instagram)

by Adriaan Alsema July 8, 2020

Colombia’s ruling party sank deeper in crisis on Wednesday after the release of a wiretap recording of a regional chief celebrating the 2018 election of President Ivan Duque with a late narco associate.

“We got a fucking president,” the Democratic Center‘s regional director in Santander, Ivan Aguilar, told Jose Guillermo Hernandez in the wiretap recording released by newspaper La Nueva Prensa.

“We got a president and we got friends,” the late money launderer of the drug trafficking organization of Marquitos Figueroa also known as “El Ñeñe” confirmed.

“The president called me four days ago”

The money launderer additionally told the party executive that “the president called me four days ago” in the wiretap reportedly recorded two weeks after Duque’s election.



Late mafia boss Jose Guillermo Hernandez (R) and
President Ivan Duque. (Image: La Nueva Prensa)

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