Eric J Brewer. The man in the official photograph with U.S. Senator Bernardo Francisco Moreno Mejia is Colombia's current president, Gustavo Petro. They shook hands before or after accusing each other of being cartel connected politicians.
The man in the smaller picture with Moreno Mejia of Medellin, Colombia is convicted ex-Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. Notice Moreno Mejia's arm is around the older man's shoulders.
The Ohio U.S. senator visited Uribe at home last year while he's under 12 years of house arrest. He's married to our Ohio U.S. senator's cousin, Lina Moreno Mejia. She's Colombia's former first lady. The elite among the families of Antioquia and Bogota intermarry.
Uribe was convicted of backing a U.S. designated terrorist organization named Bloque Metro’s drug trafficking, assassinations, extortion and kidnappings. He was also convicted of witness tampering after he and his attorney tried to convince jailed paramilitary terrorists to change their testimony against him. None of this was shared with Republican voters when he campaigned for a U.S. Senate seat in 2024.
The cartel-connected family member Moreno Mejia has his arm around appears to confirm current Colombian President Gustavo Petro's allegations from his 2002 book, LaProhibicion, that the Moreno Mejia family is cartel. President Petro is loudly telling Colombians about the Moreno Mejia's cartel involvement since our senator from Ohio is all up in Colombia's business. He's identified his brothers as Jeffrey Epstein's friends. https://colombiareports.com/bernie-morenos-older-brother-laundered-bogota-cartel-money-says-petro/
A 1994 Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report identifies Uribe as a close friend of the Medellin cartel and Pablo Escobar Gaviria. That name is in the Moreno Mejia family tree. So are the McAlisters, Restreppos, Pastranas, Ospinas and Santos’.
I counted the surnames of eight past Colombian presidents in Moreno’s family tree. Alberto Lleras Camargo, Carlos Lleras Restrepo, Misael Pastrana, Andrés Pastrana, Mariano Ospina Pérez, Pedro Nel Ospina, Eduardo Santos, Juan Manuel Santos.
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB131/dia910923.pdf
What Colombia's president has to say about the Moreno Mejia family are words Ohioans were shielded from knowing by Republican Party leaders too negligent to investigate his background and confirm his U.S. citizenship. From Colombia’s perspective the Moreno Mejia’s are dirty and our Ohio senator’s claims that President Petro is cartel connected are a deflection.
In the article I shared in the link, President Petro said he informed Colombia’s Congress in 2000 that Moreno’s second oldest brother, Roberto, helped Bogota cartel boss Angel Gaitan launder rural plots of land valued at 50,000 pesos per square meter to a value of 5,000,000 pesos per square meter for luxury condos that housed drug dealers in a land flipping racket. It created a drug dealer community away from Bogota that enriched the Moreno Mejia family.
He accused Moreno Mejia’s oldest brother, Luis Alberto Moreno Mejia, born in the U.S. in 1953 while his father brought his wife with him on a student visa, of the money laundering and bad loans associated with the Banco del Pacifico scandal. After his brothers gained vast wealth in Colombia, our Colombian born Ohio senator opened the first of what would become 15 high end car dealerships in the U.S.
I expected this type of dual citizenship bullshit from Moreno Mejia. His family’s history is in Colombia.
Our Colombian senator’s father, a surgeon, had been appointed as Colombia’s first minister of health by incoming President Misael Pastrana Borrero in 1970. Borrero's opponent, like Trump, accused him of election fraud, which led to the formation of an armed protest group called M-19, who began kidnapping and or killing Borrero's associates.
The only reason his mother fled in 1971 was her fear of Dr. Bernardo Moreno Mejia and his family of 7 children being kidnapped by M-19 revolutionaries. We’re supposed to believe he left a job to bring a national health care system to Colombia, three months after Marta Pradilla Moreno fled to the U.S. with his children in 1971, where he “found” a job as a surgical assistant.
Her reason for leaving, according to Bernardo, is that she did not want her children raised spoiled. There was no such designation for any visa in 1971 in Title 8 of the United States Code, especially for restricted Western Hemisphere Latins. When has Congress ever laid out a welcome mat at the southern border?
In the same 1994 DIA report that identifies Moreno Mejia’s convicted ex-president relative as a cartel tool is the name of a retired Israeli Defense Forces officer organizing mercenaries for the cartels. This is just some of the mess our Ohio senator is using our federal office to voluntarily engage himself in as a dual citizen. He is not like us.
Colombia’s constitution includes Law 43 of 1993 (Ley 43 de 1993). This is the primary statute governing nationality, renunciation, and recovery. All Colombian citizens born in Colombia remain Colombian citizens for life unless they renounce their citizenship.
If he naturalized as he claimed, Moreno Mejia renounced allegiance to princes and foreign powers. Colombia is a foreign power and to its citizens he is one of them serving in our Congress from Ohio.
What would have to be in his Alien Registration File, if he entered the U.S. legally as he and his supporters and fellow Colombians claim, is a Certificado de Renuncia a la Nacionalidad Colombiana. It is a certificate of his renunciation of his Colombian citizenship and the surrendering of his Colombian passport. He can obtain it only by personally appearing before a Colombian consulate or registry office and completing the form to be delivered to our Immigration and Custom Services for A-File inclusion.
In Colombia the document is recorded with the Registro Civil de la Nación. Without officially renouncing his Colombian citizenship, Moreno Mejia is still Colombian.
A U.S. Senator doesn’t vote to send Colombians to war. It’s us whose lives their votes affect. It’s us whose loved ones bear the burden of the good and bad decisions of what is supposed to come from the minds of the fellow Citizens we send to Washington, D.C. as our representatives.
I don’t want Moreno Mejia using Ohio’s U.S. Senate seat for some secret Lindsey Graham-level shit that benefits his Colombian family and political interests. If Moreno Mejia wants to be involved in Colombia’s politics, he should use his passport for a one-way ticket home. He shouldn't be making Colombian headlines as a member of a cartel-connected family behind our backs.
This is a warning to Ohio’s Republican leadership. Some of us are not leaving and we’re not going to be internally silent. It’s time for Republicans in Ohio’s 88 counties to make switch-ups at the top.
GOP leadership is fucking over our own people for an inferior quality cadre of foreign and disloyal candidates and appointed public officials who do not have our bests interests at heart. The disgrace and anti-American mindset President Donald Trump has brought to the Republican Party cannot be endorsed by any of us.
Moreno Mejia is not someone Americans can trust.