After all the controversies in which the Minister of Justice, Eduardo Montealegre, has found himself, President Gustavo Petro would have asked him to resign on the morning of Friday, October 24, 2025.
However, the handover of Colombia’s Minister of Justice and Law, Eduardo Montealegre Lynett, which is specified as irrevocable, has shaken the national political scene as it was motivated, in his own words, by the “deep indignation over the prevarication incurred by the Bogotá Court in acquitting a corrupt war criminal: Álvaro Uribe Vélez.”
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This is what Montealegre expressed in the letter addressed to President Gustavo Petro Urrego. In his letter, the head of the portfolio not only attributed his departure to the judicial decision, but also denounced a network of impunity and institutional complicity.
“An illegal act endorsed by the establishment of Colombia and a servile Nobel Peace Prize winner before it, faint-hearted,” he stated, alluding to the alleged collusion of power sectors and international figures with former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez.
The former minister, who defined himself as a victim of Uribe, announced his intention to seek justice outside national borders: “As a victim of Uribe, I must resume the exercise of my rights to prevent his acts from going unpunished. This implies that it is my duty to go to international courts to call for an end to his systematic violence against humble and working people,” Montealegre said in the letter.
Montealegre’s distrust of Colombian judicial institutions was evident in his diagnosis of the future of the case: “It is predictable that the Supreme Court, co-opted by the executioner of justice who outraged and subdued it in the past, will acquit him.
It is also clear that the Attorney General’s Office will not act to sanction the crimes against humanity of Aro and La Granja carried out by Uribe, nor the links between him and his family with paramilitarism,” warned the former minister, who also sentenced: “Uribe is the master of justice, and she, like a slave, bows submissively before his immense power. I will not do it.”
In the document, the minister stressed the urgency of resorting to international bodies and the need to maintain public denunciation: “In the face of ignominy, I must immediately prepare the only thing that accompanies me: the power of arguments, and the ethical authority to ask universal justice to prevent impunity for the serious violations of the human rights of a dark man. A man who has sown terror and violence in our country. A politician linked to drug trafficking. I can’t keep silent. “I need total freedom to continue hunting for a criminal who is, and will remain, for now, on the loose.”
Likewise, he denounced the institutional protection that, in his opinion, surrounds the former president: “Also protected at this moment by an obscure official, an ally of the mafia lawyer: the attorney general of the nation, belonging to the most corrupt political class in Colombia. Incredible: with the support of sectors of the historic pact that claim to promote transparency,” Montealegre wrote.
At the end of his letter, Montealegre thanked President Petro for his trust and outlined his vision for the political future of the country: “The constituent assembly of popular initiative is the only way we have left to defeat the establishment and the new paramilitary governance that wants to impose itself again on our country. Governance led by Álvaro Uribe, protected by sectors of the justice system.”
The letter concluded with a personal warning to the president: “Be very careful: in the palace there are traitors who lurk with dangerous daggers,” implying that there are those who accompany him, but would intend to harm his management.
