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Rodríguez, once one of the president's closest officials, said he began to distrust her during her tenure at DAPRE and pressured her to resign
The manager of Colombia's Adaptation Fund and former director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency (DAPRE), Angie Rodríguez, publicly accused President Gustavo Petro of subjecting her to mistreatment during her time in government, in remarks to a local radio station. The president responded that the claims are “slanderous” and announced he will pursue criminal action. The exchange comes ten days before the handover of power to president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella.
Rodríguez, once one of the president's closest officials, said he began to distrust her during her tenure at DAPRE and pressured her to resign. She said he accused her of being allied with paramilitary sectors and of other offenses, and said she interpreted as threats certain remarks about the president's past in the guerrilla movement. “I think he is my greatest victimizer,” she said, adding that she fears for her safety. None of those claims has any judicial backing.
The president rejected the accusations and made his own. He said he removed her from DAPRE over what he described as “a subordinate relationship to political sectors that are heirs to paramilitarism,” and attributed her recent dismissal to “her disloyalty to the government program and the use of public office for private ends.” He said he had kept her at the Adaptation Fund despite having lost confidence in her. Those allegations have likewise not been brought before the courts.
