Colombia’s socialist president Gustavo Petro has been in the US’s crosshairs since he denounced Trump and his “clan of paedophiles” for abducting Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
Today, he narrowly avoided assassination when attackers overran the planned landing site for the helicopter in which he and his family were travelling.
Petro later described how the family had to fly out to sea for hours before finding a safe place:
https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/ORTm4fT9muUgFGgt.mp4
No group has yet claimed responsibility, leaving open the likelihood of another US-sponsored murder attempt, ignored by most western media.
Featured image via the Canary
By Skwawkbox
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I’m pretty sure this is fake. I went to elespectador.com and presidencia.gov.co and both don’t mention anything about an assassination attempt.
However, the video looks suspiciously similar to a real video in which Petro talks about a police officer supposedly trying to frame him with drugs in the presidential car. So probably a deep fake using that video as a base and faking something far more dramatic to create controversy and spread hate.