Pedro Castillo’s lawyer met Gustavo Petro in Colombia

Gustavo Petro was one of the staunchest defenders of Pedro Castillo Over the past few months. In each intervention, the President of Colombia He expressed the same thesis as his Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO)which points out that the former head of state is unjustly in prison when he committed a failed coup on December 7 last year.

Because of this, he has no problem meeting with Castillo’s lawyers.

This Thursday a surprised tweet from Petro, who reports having received in the Narino Palace in Bogota to one of the legal defenders of the former Peruvian president. He’s the Argentinian lawyer Guido Croxattowho works hand in hand with the former judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Eugenio Zaffaroniin the international defense of Castillo Terrones.

“I meet Guido Croxatto, lawyer for the President of Peru Pedro Castillo. Croxatto with Zaffaroni, both Argentines, are part of the current that guarantees the fundamental right to a democracy, ”wrote the Colombian president who still recognizes the professor from Cajamarca as the highest authority in the country despite the fact that To Boluarte has the reins of Executive.

Due to successive legal defeats in the national jurisdiction, Castillo’s lawyers sought out foreign experts to try to take the case to international bodies. In this way, they opted for a new path that would allow him to be released from the 18 months of preventive detention imposed on him for the frustrated self-coup of December 2022 when he wanted to unconstitutionally close the Parliament and capture different autonomous institutions such as the national prosecutor’s office and the Judicial authority.

On this scene, the figure of former judge Eugenio Zaffaroni came out to carve. On February 3, we learn that he visited Castillo in the prison of Barbadillo. On a photo broadcast by Canal N, we see him entering the penitentiary establishment of Ate with suspended congressman Passion Davila and the lawyer Eduardo Pashas. It has also been observed Guido Croxatto.

On this occasion, the former Prime Minister Juan Jimenez pointed out that he is a very famous lawyer who was a magistrate and close to the government of Alberto Fernandez In Argentina.

“It is surely there because there is an international strategy for the defense of former President Castillo. I don’t have the written proof, but everything makes you think,” he said. Moreover, he added: “It is no coincidence that zaffaroni to be here in Peru and be in Barbadillo. It’s very clear “.

In fact, the newspaper The Republic published an interview