It was about time.
The police chief appointed by Gustavo Petro, a homophobic and ultra-religious man who claimed to fight crime in the form of the devil with God's help, fell this Wednesday.
The president announced his departure on his Twitter account, thanking him for the services rendered.
It has been the elegant way that Petro has chosen to dismiss an official who had been staggering for a month, when he rejected the condom for abortion and blamed gays for HIV among the agents.
From that moment, Sanabria's days were numbered.
I appreciate the hard work of General Henry Sanabria and General Yackeline Navarro at @PoliciaColombia.
The new director of the Police will be General (R) William Salamanca, he is a Major General of the Reserve, with more than 37 years of experience in the institution.
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) April 12, 2023
The president, however, stood his ground and did not remove him then.
He thus demonstrated that he did not allow himself to be influenced by the environment when making the decision.
A month later it was already impossible to keep him in a top-level position in the Government.
The clamor, however, was general.
Eleven congressmen signed a letter calling for his removal.
“Colombia has a police general from medieval times.
He is a person who denominationally runs the institution.
This gentleman is an activist against the exercise of women's civil rights, in addition to their open discrimination against the diverse population," representative Jennifer Pedraza, one of the signatories, recently told this newspaper.
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