In the midst of the presidential elections in Colombia, an alleged black and white photograph began to circulate on social networks showing one of the presidential candidates, Gustavo Petro, together with the famous drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, both shirtless and accompanied by other men. . , all in front of a table where you can see some drinks. However the photography is a montage: the face of the leftist opposition candidate was glued to the body of another person.

“Gustavo Petro, who could be president of Colombia, joined the M-19, a demobilized terrorist group in 1990, which promoted violent episodes in the country’s history. Below, a photo of Petro with Pablo Escobar”, reads the publication.

In a search for the image in Google Images, it is possible to reach the original photograph: a larger image, in which other men appear, one of them the drug trafficker’s cousin, Gustavo Gaviria. From the image it can be concluded that the The person next to Escobar is not the Colombian presidential candidate, but a man with a mustache.. The original photograph, of which the date on which it was taken is unknown, appears, in fact, in several reports on the life of excesses of the drug trafficker: for example, in the Colombian magazine “Semana” or in the place Infobae Argentina.

Original photograph in the report of the magazine “Semana”

The same photograph in a report published on the Infobae Argentina website.

The face of Gustavo Petro, a billionaire businessman nicknamed by the local press as “Colombian Trump”, was taken from a photo of you with former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The photograph was taken in 1994, in Bogotá, before Chávez assumed the presidency of Venezuela, which would not happen until 1999, and seven months after the death of escobarshot by carabineros when he was fleeing through the roofs of a house in Medellín.

The exchange of the photo takes place at a time when Gustavo Petro won the first round of the presidential elections, on May 30, with 40.33% of the votes, ahead of the independent Fernando Hernández who, with 28.14%, surpassed the conservative candidate Federico Gutiérrez, who obtained 23.90%. The second round of the presidential elections is scheduled for June 19 and already represents a historic defeat for the traditional right, in power for decades in Colombia.

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A photograph circulates on social networks where one of the candidates for the presidency of Colombia Gustavo Petro is seen together with the famous drug trafficker Pablo Escobar. But the image is a montage: in the original photograph it can be concluded that the person next to Escobar is not the candidate for the presidency of Colombia, but a man with a mustache.

Gustavo Petro’s face was plastered to another man’s body and was taken from a photograph of him with former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The photograph in question was taken in 1994 in Bogotá, before Chávez assumed the presidency of Venezuela in 1999, and seven months after Escobar’s death.

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