Gustavo Petro, presidente de Colombia, denunció este martes la existencia de un plan para asesinarlo. «Tengo que confesar que me mudo en dos días, escapándome de que me maten», dijo Petro, a tres meses de las elecciones presidenciales.

«Por eso anoche no pude llegar, no podía aterrizar donde teníamos que aterrizar. No me prendían las luces. Y a la mañana tampoco aterricé, porque temía que le iban a disparar al helicóptero, con mis hijos también», añadió.

«Entonces cogimos mar abierto cuatro horas, no llegué donde tenía que llegar, pero llegué. Vengo así…», siguió.

Las declaraciones de Petro tuvieron lugar en una reunión con ministros, transmitida en vivo, luego de la desaparición de la senadora indígena Aida Quilcué. Petro denunció su secuestro. La mujer apareció con vida horas más tarde.

También aseguró que ordenó retirar a un general de la policía. «Tiene una misión extraña para ponerme sustancias psicoactivas en el carro. Se allanó su casa, era para eso. Y tenía como misión la reunión con Trump», añadió, en referencia al esperado encuentro con el presidente de Estados Unidos, que se concretó la semana pasada después de meses de enfrentamiento público entre ambos.

«Eso me coloca en una situación de alarma. Y con esto, peor. Hay una acción para con órdenes de captura, incluso con el intento de poner a mi hijo preso a fines del año pasado», siguió Petro.

Los dichos de Petro ocurren en medio de una nueva ola de inseguridad política, cuyo último capítulo fue la desaparición de Aida Quilcué, cercana al presidente, y miembros de su equipo de seguridad. Aparecieron con vida horas más tarde.

No se sabía nada de ellos desde las 13.30 de este martes (hora local, 15.30 en Argentina), cuando fueron interceptados por otro auto.

La semana pasada atentaron contra la caravana de vehículos de Jairo Alberto Castellanos, senador en Arauca, región fronteriza con Venezuela. El político no viajaba en la camioneta, pero mataron a dos de sus guardaespaldas. El ELN (Ejército de Liberación Nacional) se despegó del atentado: «No fue nuestro objetivo».

«Informamos a la opinión pública que la Senadora Aída Quilcué y su esquema de seguridad presuntamente han sido secuestrados en el tramo Inzá-Totoro, Cauca. Solicitamos la mayor colaboración sobre información de la integridad de la senadora y su esquema de seguridad», expresó el equipo de la dirigente en X.

Petro detalló que el vehículo en el que se movilizaba Quilcué fue interceptado por desconocidos a las 13:30 hora local (18:30 GMT) en el páramo de Totoró, en el Cauca, zona donde son particularmente fuertes las disidencias de las FARC.

«Es un grito de guerra contra todos los indígenas del Cauca y del país», añadió el mandatario en un consejo de ministros en Montería, capital del departamento caribeño de Córdoba, al comentar el secuestro de la senadora de la coalición oficialista Pacto Histórico.

El ministro de Defensa, Pedro Sánchez Suárez, aseguró que «toda la Fuerza Pública está en reacción y adelantando la búsqueda» de la senadora, que ganó el Premio Nacional de Derechos Humanos en la categoría de Defensa a toda una vida en 2021, un año antes de asumir su escaño en el Congreso.

Luego, el ministro de Defensa confirmó su hallazgo con vida. «La guardia indígena informa que ya encontraron a nuestra senadora Aída Quilcué y sus escoltas. Todos están bien. Nuestra Fuerza Pública avanza a la zona. Una vez se tenga mayor información será comunicada», expresó en X.

La guardia indígena reporta que llegó al lugar y halló la camioneta donde viajaba la senadora @aida_quilcue, pero sin personas en el interior.

Se continúa la búsqueda.

Cualquier información llame al 147 o 165. pic.twitter.com/zjuANS1mzf

— Pedro Arnulfo Sanchez S. Orgullosamente Colombiano (@PedroSanchezCol) February 10, 2026

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Quilcué afirma haber recibido múltiples amenazas a lo largo de su vida, incluyendo mensajes intimidatorios, atentados e incluso el asesinato de su esposo en 2008.

Justamente el 29 de octubre de 2022, Quilcué salió ilesa de un atentado luego de que su vehículo fuera atacado a tiros cuando se movilizaba por una vía rural del Cauca.

Posteriormente, el 20 de mayo de 2023, denunció un nuevo hecho de intimidación cuando hombres armados merodearon e intentaron ingresar a su vivienda también en una zona rural de Popayán, la capital departamental.

Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., lamented during a hearing on Capitol Hill Tuesday that allegations about foreign funding and coordination among anti-ICE agitators are «delegitimizing» people’s justified «anger» and «fear» caused by federal immigration officers.

Kim also called the questioning «dangerous» during the Tuesday hearing, which was about fraud and touched on concerns that foreign adversaries were financing anti-ICE efforts in the U.S. to create a strategic smokescreen meant to deter accountability away from their massive criminal fraud enterprises.      

«People all over this country are frustrated and concerned and upset. They’re scared and they’re worried about things because they just saw two American citizens get killed in the street by federal agents,» Kim said Tuesday. 

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«The idea that people would be saying that this type of anger and this type of of outrage – whether in New Jersey or in Minnesota – is being predominantly coordinated in this type of way,» he continued. «I just have to say it is delegitimizing the anger and the fear that people are facing right now … The way in which it’s been described … I just think is very dangerous right now. And I hope that we can still say and recognize that there are a lot of people, a lot of people that are furious right now and worried.»

The Senator’s arguments, such as that the violence from anti-ICE agitators stems from justified anger and that the questioning of how this violence is being organized «delegitimizes» protesting, have been frequently touted by Democrats in the past, and not just as it pertains to the ongoing anti-ICE sentiment.  

During a separate congressional hearing in December, Rep. Julie Johnson, D-Texas, described attacks against ICE agents – which are up 12,000%, according to the Trump administration – as the result of people «channeling [their] frustration.»

«You’re seeing an overwhelming frustration of the American people in this country that the lack of respect and regard for the rule of law from this administration, and in particular by this Secretary, is at a level we have never seen and violates all of the constitutional norms and all of the principles of legal fairness in this country,» Johnson said. «And you’re seeing that manifest itself in threats to law enforcement, in bubbling over, because people are frustrated, and they are channeling that frustration because the administration is not listening.»

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Representative Julie Johnson, a Democrat from Texas, speaks during a New Democrat Coalition news conference on health care at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Meanwhile, in 2024, amid ongoing protests regarding the situation in Gaza and other civil unrest, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) described former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s calls for the FBI to investigate Gaza ceasefire protests for connections to Russia as «incredibly dangerous.»

«From Martin Luther King Jr. to Black Lives Matter protesters, the FBI has long used ‘foreign influence’ as an excuse to conduct illegal surveillance on Americans exercising free speech rights,» the ACLU said in a post on X in 2024.     

Despite claims that foreign funding accusations act as a smokescreen to «legitimize» lawful First Amendment activity, Republican-aligned witnesses during the Tuesday hearing argued billionaires, including some with ties to foreign adversaries, such as Neville Roy Singham and Hansjorg Wyss, pumped $60 million into the agitation efforts aimed at disrupting federal immigration efforts.

As unrest escalates in Minneapolis, investigators are uncovering a network of far-left activist groups allegedly bankrolled by a wealthy U.S. expat in China with reported ties to Chinese Communist Party–aligned propaganda efforts. (Roberto Schmidt/ AFP via Getty Images; Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for V-Day)

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«It comes in the form of a check, a six-figure check,» said Government Accountability Institute VP Seamus Bruner. «We’ve built a database that contains hundreds of thousands of rows from grants from networks like the Soros Network, the Arabella funding network – as mentioned – the Neville Roy Singham funding network, many others, Tides, the Ford Foundation network, the Rockefeller Funding network, these massive NGOs that have billions of dollars to spend on all kinds of coordinated protest, or in this case, riot activity.»

Rescuers in Italy reported Monday that at least a dozen skiers, climbers and hikers died over the past week in a record-setting tragedy in the country’s mountainous terrain.

While authorities said 11 of the 12 victims were killed in avalanches triggered by exceptionally unstable conditions on ungroomed backcountry slopes, The Associated Press reported a total of 13 deaths.

The incidents occurred just as the Winter Olympics began in the region last Friday. Authorities stressed that the game sites — located in Lombardy on the Swiss border, Cortina d’Ampezzo in Veneto and Val di Fiemme in Trentino — remain safe, well-maintained and closely monitored. 

Italy’s specialist mountain rescue organization revealed the fatal disasters were caused by weak layers of fresh snow, unstable enough that the passage of a single person could trigger an avalanche.

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The main issue is caused by «persistent weak layers in the snowy cloak, often covered by fresh snow or wind, conditions that make detachments unpredictable and easily triggered even by the passing of a single skier or alpinist,» the National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps said. «The dangerous points are many and difficult to identify, even for an expert.»

The country’s Alpine Rescue Corps spokesperson, Federico Catania, added that recent snowstorms have prompted visitors to take advantage of the fresh slopes, «and as a result, the number of accidents, and therefore fatalities, has increased proportionally,» the AP reported.

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Two Vigili del Fuoco crew members stand inside a helicopter next to an open door during a snowy mountain operation. (Vigili del Fuoco)

Italy’s national fire and rescue service, Vigili del Fuoco, reported that, over the weekend, two people died and one was seriously injured in Alpe Meriggio in Valtellina after being caught in an avalanche that fatally buried at least one of the victims.

The Associated Press also reported that three people died in avalanches in Trentino and one in neighboring South Tyrol.

Another two were reportedly killed in separate avalanches near the Marmolada glacier, two hikers along the Apennine range and an ice climber in Valle d’Aosta.

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Vigili del Fuoco crew members conduct a helicopter rescue over a mountain area. (Vigili del Fuoco)

Outside such regions, Catania said people skiing in managed areas should not face any significant risks, the AP reported.

«There is no danger for people skiing within managed ski resorts, and, in particular, no risks to the Olympic sites,» Catania said. «All of these areas are constantly monitored and are generally safe regardless of Olympic events.»

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Prior to the start of the Winter Olympics, Vigili del Fuoco said that crews would maintain safety measures for all visitors to the sites.

«For the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, the Italian National Fire Brigade has implemented an enhanced rescue structure to ensure the safety of athletes, delegations, spectators, and citizens, while also ensuring the continuity of the regular service,» the organization said.