00:00Few have walked among weapons, prison, faith, and corridors.
00:04of power in Colombia, taking a significant political turn. How did a former militant end up
00:08of the M19, being the ideologue behind the government project of President Abelardo de la
00:13Espriella? His name is Carlos Alonso Lucio. In 1979, with
00:17At just 15 years old, he enlisted in the M19 guerrilla and now, 47 years later, he is the one
00:23has advised on the entire programmatic line of President de la Espriella, ensuring
00:27a position in the inner circle of the head of state.
00:30After demobilizing, in 1990 he entered politics with the party that emerged from the Peace Agreement,
00:36Democratic Alliance M19. He arrived at Congress and from the halls of the Capitol he was the iron fist
00:42Ernesto Samper's lawyer during the 8000 process. He met the man who, he claims, is the love of his life.
00:46of her life, former prosecutor Vivian Morales and defended, years later, a referendum against the
00:51equal adoption. Today, Lucio, who made a radical shift towards
00:54The right wing, in the midst of its political trajectory, which began on the left, does not have
00:59an official public office, but he is the architect of the plan he himself called the Ark of
01:04Noah and the mastermind behind De la Espriella's culture war. Furthermore, for more
01:09The 26-year-old converted to Christianity and is close to the House on the Rock church.
01:14where she married Morales. She has power in religious circles and reportedly has her sights set on him.
01:19in the compensation fund sector, where I would like to place one of my quotas. The debate
01:24It's about how informed the president was about this. There are several versions. In any case,
01:29There, power is concentrated in the economic sphere, since in 2025 alone it generated income of
01:34more than 2.4 trillion pesos. However, the figure of Lucio, who was convicted of false
01:39He filed a complaint, went into exile during the legal proceedings, illegally returned to Colombia, and was kidnapped.
01:44by the assassination of Carlos Castaño and later released to serve his sentence in the
01:49The pillory is, at the very least, complex. Sources on Capitol Hill say that this past
01:54This makes others close to De las Priella, such as his campaign strategist and now president,
01:59Carlos Suárez, from the Ecopetrol Board, prefer to keep him out of the decisions that
02:04They are taken at the Palace. But other voices still place him as one of the people who speaks to him.
02:09He whispered in the president's ear. Despite the conflicting accounts and the distance being drawn between them,
02:14Lucio's power extends due to his close relationship with De las Priella. The friendly bond with him
02:19The higher the position of power, the safer he is, so to speak. This is confirmed by
02:24the recent appointment of his wife as High Commissioner for Peace. To learn more about
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