( Spanish) — Armando Benedetti, former Colombian ambassador to Venezuela, asked the country’s Attorney General’s Office on Twitter on Wednesday to “take urgent measures” to protect him and his family after receiving alleged threats.
“I have physical evidence of threats that we have received directly and indirectly from very powerful people,” said the former official, without going into details.
The Colombian Prosecutor’s Office has not ruled on the matter and tries to obtain information from the entity.
In another message on the same social networkBenedetti said that he would leave the country to fulfill a “previously acquired family commitment”, and that this trip “has nothing to do with the threats that my family and I have been victims of.”
The former diplomat did not report his destination, although he did say that he would return to Colombia next Tuesday.
The threats denounced by Benedetti arise days after the publication in the magazine Week of some audios attributed to him, in which he threatens to reveal details of the financing of the political campaign that brought President Gustavo Petro to power.
With information from Fernando Ramos
