The president asserted that he will ask the International Criminal Court (ICC) to take action against the criminal organization known as the “Drug Trafficking Junta,” which is believed to have its base of operations in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He also affirmed that this organization is not a cartel made up of Colombians because “Colombians long ago lost control over cocaine trafficking.”

Petro stated that Colombia only provides the dead, the young men with rifles, the control of the territory, and the coca leaf, but the money generated by drug trafficking goes to Dubai, Miami, Madrid, or other large cities. “I asked that we begin to build a case before the ICC for the crimes against humanity that these multinational mafias are committing in Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, and many parts of Latin America and North America,” he explained.

Petro stated that he has “become the enemy of the Colombian far right, the neo-Nazis, because they are neo-Nazis, in an international network that tries to take advantage of these circumstances.”

The president also listed the numerous attempts on his life, citing as an example the detection of a missile during the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) in the city of Cali in November 2024. He commented that authorities had located the exact area where the weapon was located, as well as the groups led by alias Iván Mordisco, leader of the self-proclaimed Central General Staff, who planned to fill official and armored vehicles with explosives in order to kill him.

Petro also recalled that in 2022, according to information provided by the United States Embassy, ​​snipers would attempt to kill him from a rented apartment in downtown Bogotá.

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