What is happening in Colombia with the scandal involving Nicolás Petro, the son of President Gustavo Petro, is a clear example of the unpleasant noise that relatives of rulers can make when they behave lightly and, in the specific case of Petro, perhaps criminally. Paradoxically, Nicolás Petro, now at the center of the hurricane, was the only one of the president’s sons who saw the possibility of devoting himself to politics, proudly bearing his father’s surname, a circumstance that led him to find a way to create profits rather than enabling him to enrich himself at a price receiving large sums of money from businessmen, collaborators in his father’s campaign.

Among the payers, as it is now said, were not only businessmen, but also people connected to the drug trade and smuggling, i.e. dirty money that ultimately did not enter his father’s presidential campaign fund, but into his personal wealth. What was an ongoing rumor ended up being front page news when a prestigious magazine Week published an interview with the wife of Nicolás Petra, from whom he recently divorced; The disgruntled spouse made important revelations, citing her conversations with her husband as evidence, showing how the Colombian president’s son had amassed a fortune that allowed him to buy a luxury house in Barranquilla, while claiming to have large sums of cash. Faced with such a scandal, the Colombian president made the right decision, which is to ask the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate his brother and his eldest son, stating that “whoever wants to take advantage has no place, even if it was my family”.

Son’s troubles should be added to those of his brother Juan Fernando Petr, who was accused a few months ago of receiving possible payments from drug traffickers in order to be considered a peace manager and thus gain his freedom. The Colombian president noted: “I believe that my brother and son can prove their innocence, but I will respect the conclusions reached by justice.”

Of course, Peter’s son flatly rejected the accusations, pointing out that he did not receive any political, personal or financial favors from any suspicious person. Among the interesting discoveries is precisely the inappropriate friendship of the son of the Colombian president with the marlboro man, which would give him 600 million pesos despite the fact that he had a long drug-related record in the past, to the point of being one of the first drug traffickers to be extradited to the United States. What the hell was Peter’s son thinking when he wasn’t aware of the delicate risk he was taking by associating with a person with such a criminal record?

There is a simple explanation, and it refers to a confusing interpretation of facts that can lead certain relatives of the ruler to consider his behavior beyond good and evil. And of course, why not become friends with the marlboro man?, what’s the problem? (OR)