At a meeting of Gustavo Petro’s strategists, his wife, Verónica Alcocer, spoke up and made some harsh criticisms regarding the course of the Historic Pact’s presidential campaign.
“He (Petro) cannot change his way of dressing, because it is not him; nor his speech, because it is not him. When he was so still, so mute and the streets lit up, I would say to him: what are you doing so quiet, so still, where are you? That’s not you,” says Alcocer.
“It is good not to enter the conflict, lighting up every day, but a moderate message (…) people are in the streets, you are the leader and they need to see you a little,” recommends Petro’s wife.
Alcocer, likewise, says that her husband “is very stubborn” and therefore points out that “experts are the ones who have to guide, since no one has the last word, and no one is wise.”
“But he (Petro), if he wants to win, he has to hear things he doesn’t want to hear and do things he doesn’t want to do, because the concept is to win,” he says.
“If the concept is to try another presidential campaign, well, it’s gone, it’s not time anymore, do you understand me?”, he assures in the meeting, whose recording was known exclusively by SEMANA.
In his speech, Alcocer reflects on the fears that Petro produces in society and talks regarding why he has not had the expected vote in all strata.
“The people who are not voting for him (Petro) are more from stratum 3, because they have already measured it, they are women, housewives, they are not voting for you, because of the way you give the message, perhaps,” he tells him. Veronica to her husband.
She questions “the way the message is conveyed. It cannot be the same as for young people, it has to make these mothers and others from stratum 5 and stratum 6 lose their fear, why not?
“Here we are with strategists of the stature of Vinicio (Alvarado) who seems to me to have already had experience with power as such that none of us has had,” says Veronica, referring to Vinicio Alvarado, a strategist for Petro’s presidential campaign. , who was convicted of the same acts of corruption as former President Rafael Correa in Ecuador.
“People are afraid of change, they have been scared of Gustavo, and there is no communication strategy to combat this (…) WhatsApp networks are going to do him immense harm,” says his wife. of the presidential candidate, who says that in the past he found that there are people “studied thinking that Petro is a Castrochavista.”
“It is worring me? We are in the same situation, there is no media campaign, there is no communication strategy, the networks’ campaign has already started”, says Verónica, who recommends making a “counter-campaign, adjusting the communication theme, not disdaining the center and aiming at those who do not go out to vote.
For her, “votes should not be underestimated” and they should also be sought in the upper strata. “We are going to be wrong once more,” she warns.
“With respect to my lord husband, he is quite stubborn, headstrong, quite left-wing. We have to land, if we can carry out the project”, says Verónica.
Petro listens to her, doesn’t interrupt her and just sits with his arms crossed.
“I feel ashamed”: Gustavo Bolívar on Gustavo Petro’s campaign strategies to affect other candidates
Eleven days before the second presidential round in which Colombians will choose the new president of Colombia between Rodolfo Hernández and Gustavo Petro, SEMANA revealed a large number of videos and audios in which the strategy of Gustavo Petro’s campaign to “politically finish off” other presidential candidates was revealed.
The first member of the Historical Pact to react was Senator Gustavo Bolívar, who acknowledged on his social networks that everything that is happening is a shame.
“There are people who subtract more than they add. I feel shame”, Bolívar said without mentioning Roy Barreras, who is the main actor in all the conversations revealed by SEMANA.
The dirty war plan designed by Gustavo Petro’s campaign once morest Federico Gutiérrez before the first presidential round was known exclusively by SEMANA.
The campaign is led by a man identified as Sebastián Camilo Guanumen Parra, who gives instructions during a virtual meeting. SEMANA accessed whole hours of said conversations where a smear plan is designed.
“We need to start attacking Fico, to instill certain rumors and certain elements that serve us once morest Fico, just as they do us. In this campaign it is not enough to defend yourself alone,” says Guanumen.
“We need to start generating content that we can put out on different networks and different WhatsApp channels, attacking Fico. How are we going to attack it? Because of his relations with drug traffickers, because of his poor management in the Mayor’s Office. With the networks of power behind him. Fico has to be sold like a puppet,” he adds.
“You have to review Fico’s record, of the people around him, you have to start projecting things, let your imagination run wild, think regarding attacking Fico and taking away the possibility of reaching women,” says Guanumen.
Likewise, the man gives precise instructions on what each of the assistants must do. “WhatsApp chains so that women see Fico in a negative way. We are in an operational headquarters of campaign B. I throw ideas at them, it is regarding defending the campaign and managing to dispute the audiences with Fico. With the issue of entrepreneurship and the economy, we have to project that Fico is going to end the economy of this country. If we’re screwed, with Fico it’s going to be worse. If Duque led this country into crisis, Fico is going to sink it,” he says.
“On the subject of women, you have to see things like: would you trust someone like Fico? Putting his face like depraved, I don’t know. Would you entrust your children to a president like Fico? Would you leave your mom or dad with Fico’s allies? Start playing with emotional themes to take away their audience. On the subject of security, for example, did you know that Fico has never, you have to exaggerate, he never put him in jail (…). Did you know that you defended the Office of Envigado? Like people who go out on the street, and they steal it, think: son of a bitch, this is Fico”.
“Let people think that insecurity is Fico’s fault. If Fico is president, we are going to live in filth”, asks Guanumen.
“If you cannot buy potatoes and meat, it is because Duque has governed like this and Fico is continuity. We need to move there, on women’s issues, pocket of Colombians. That when people go to buy potatoes or meat, they say: son of a bitch, this is expensive because of the Duke and say: I don’t want another Duke in power.”
“You have to start looking for scandals in Fico, that’s another task,” says Guanumen.
During the meeting, one of the attendees, following hearing the instructions, shows his concern and asks: “What is the ethical margin of this. I don’t know to what extent we are going to generate disputes, disagreements. I don’t know if the operational form, the way it is being proposed, can work. If you don’t assign homework, you may not get a single meme.”
On his Twitter account, Sebastian Guanumen identifies himself as a member of Gustavo Petro’s communications team.
