“Santos is getting uglier and more gago”, María Fernanda Cabal attacks former president Juan Manuel Santos

Commotion in social networks on the morning of this Tuesday after the senator of the Democratic Center party María Fernanda Cabal published on his Twitter account a trill against former Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and insulted him for his physical appearance, calling him ‘ugly’ and ‘gago’.

Senator Cabal’s reaction came after the analysis carried out by Gabriel Silva, Former Colombian Defense Minister during the Uribe government, on the letter that former President Álvaro Uribe sent to the newly appointed President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.

Former Minister Gabrilel Silva, in dialogue with Caracol Radio, said that Uribe’s words are an attempt to amend “The blunder” of his party, the Democratic Center, when he decided to bet all the cards on Donald Trump.

“I see Uribe’s letter to Biden as an attempt to amend the gaffe of the Democratic Center by betting all the letters on Trump, because those exaggerations, which are nothing more than fantasies, only deepen the problem that Uribe created and his party colleagues for Colombian foreign policy, ”said former official Silva.

For Gabriel Silva, Uribe’s letter to Biden tries to give foreign policy lessons to the new president of the United States, an action that does not correspond to him. Deep down, he notes, Uribe is telling Biden that Colombia remains in league with Donald Trump. These proposals are given, possibly, with a view to the coincidence of the presidential candidacies of Colombia with the beginning of those of the United States in 2022.

After former President Uribe sent the letter, the reactions of several political leaders in the country did not wait. For example, Congresswoman Angela María Robledo classified the letter as “unusual.”

Green Party senator Antonio Sanguino said Uribe’s letter to Biden “invites laughter” over the fact that a former Latino leader tells a US leader how to act.

In addition, the former minister stressed that, at the beginning of Iván Duque’s presidential term, Trump “gave him orders and scolded him in public.” believing that coercive policies were the solution. The path with Biden will be different, since the possibility of reaching agreements through policies built between the two countries opens up.

Similarly, during the Trump administration, Silva affirmed, there was a kind of complicit silence regarding the deterioration in the defense of human rights in the country “and in the institutional behavior of the forces.” The intolerance of social protest, the murder of social leaders and massacres are part of that ‘iceberg’ that interested Trump very little, but that the Democrats will take into account.

Silva concluded by emphasizing that bipartisan policies are key to the relations of the current and future presidency of Colombia with the United States.

Despite the analysis by Silva, Senator Cabal was dispatched against the former Colombian president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016.

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