Petro spoke of his intention to learn English, mentioned William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and Ernest Hemingway, and made striking statements about himself: “I sometimes feel military and I am clandestine and I know about the clandestinities of becoming invisible like the jaguar.”
In another section, the president insisted that foreign sectors would have financed attacks against him: “Foreign mixed funds in dollars and contributions from genocides and narco-terrorists from Colombia to destroy the person of the current president of Colombia (…) is a proven foreign interference.”
Finally, he again linked his allegations with a potential invalidation of the electoral process and the idea of rebellion. “The decisive foreign interference (…) is a cause, by far, to annul the elections (…) and is a cause of rebellion and of taking up arms as I did when I was young,” he concluded.
The message generated controversy due to its delirious content, the lack of evidence for the accusations, and especially for the explicit mention of the possibility of an armed uprising.










