A Senate candidate for the newly founded ADN party denied allegations that he is sponsored by drug money, claiming on Monday that “a faggot from South Africa who is in love with me is sending me money.”
ADN, the party of former Colombian ambassador to South Africa and current senatorial candidate Carlos Moreno de Caro, has been criticized for the large number of candidates who have family members under investigation for links to paramilitaries. According to Cambio Radical leader German Vargas Lleras, “testimonies indicate” that money used for the party’s campaign “are provided by the drug trade.”
“They ask me where I get the money for the political campaigns, but why don’t they ask the same of the little German Vargas Lleras? … I have this money because of my own strength, my own work and my own savings,” the candidate declared, later surprisingly adding that “I have a faggot in South Africa who is in love with me and is sending me money … where is the sin?”
Colombia’s Congressional elections will be held on March 14 and will be watched closely by politicians and human rights organizations, as more than 80 former members of Congress have been linked to paramilitary groups.
