Colombian presidential candidate Rodolfo Hernández canceled his public activities 10 days before the ballot with the leftist Gustavo Petro, given the “risk” to his life, he announced this Thursday in Twitter.
“For my safety, and to guarantee the possibility of a democratic election on June 19, I have made the decision to cancel all my public appearances between now and the elections,” tweeted the millionaire candidate following a press conference in Miami, in the southeast. from the United States.
“At this moment I am certain that my life is at risk,” the businessman, who went to Florida to meet with members of the local Colombian community, wrote in another message.
During the press conference, Hernández77 years old, denounced that a campaign is being carried out once morest him.
“They are planning to destroy us through false testimonies and with false witnesses,” he said, without naming names, later adding: “I have already received the precautions that they would be trying to kill me.”
«That murder is not with lead, it will be with a knife. (…) Because it turns out that people go to the airport to meet me or we go to a room and you have to go in. And there they put 4 or 5 who protect me, but when there are 500 pushing, they are saying that they are going to stab me », he added.
The former mayor of Bucaramanga, who convinced voters with his anti-corruption creed and his daily management reports through broadcasts on social networks, traveled to Florida to win the votes of the important local community.
In the south of the state there are 100,000 Colombian citizens eligible to vote, of which half went to the polls in the first round.
