On Tuesday August 9, the Council of State annulled a decision by the Attorney General in 2010, through which he was dismissed and disqualified for 18 years from holding public office the then Senator Piedad Cordoba. The last chapter of a sequence of judicial politicians, media leaks and diplomatic cables that promised to be the parts of a record unprecedented scandals and. The computers of Raul Reyes
The story began in the early Saturday March 1, 2008, when 1,800 meters from the border with Colombia, in an area known as Angostura, in the province of Sucumbios (Ecuador), was shot guerrilla leader of the FARC Edgar Devia, alias Raul Reyes . The following week, while a serious diplomatic crisis was brewing with Ecuador, backed by Venezuela and Nicaragua, the government of Alvaro Uribe brought up his unexpected ace.
Before the military evacuated the devastated area is they took him three laptops, two hard drives and three USB drives, which became the Uribe government digital tool to counter their opponents. And it was the then Police Director General Oscar Naranjo, who went on to say that computers of Reyes partially revealed the links between the FARC and the governments of Venezuela and Ecuador.
With the passage of time, its contents began to spread in the media. And not only referencing emails that revealed the alleged support of the FARC’s government Hugo Chavez in Venezuela or contacts with government officials Rafael Correa in Ecuador , but made more serious. Relations with the arms dealer Victor Bout, attempts at making bombs with depleted uranium or links to Eta.
Then the leaks reached the international press and was the newspaper El Pais of Spain the recipient to disclose on the alleged support network in 17 countries FARC or the deployment of secret cells in various countries of Latin America. Such was the level of leaks dropper, a Bogota newspaper filed a purported photo of Raul Reyes with Minister of Ecuador Gustavo Larrea, and had to rectify because the character was an Argentine journalist.
In those days Colombia was shaken by the para-politics and scandal served to balance loads with farcpolitics, ie, the supposed links with guerrilla Democratic congressmen Polo Gloria Ines Ramirez, Jorge Robledo or Wilson Borja; Carlos Lozano and communicators William Parra; Peace managers Alvaro Leyva and Lázaro Viveros; Swiss exfacilitador Jean Pierre Gontard or Senator Piedad Cordoba.
The congressman, who led the search for an agreement between the Uribe government and the FARC to free political, military and policemen kidnapped, it was noted by the police to advise on how to negotiate the guerrillas, using the pseudonym Teodora de Bolivar. She refused to be the interlocutor of those emails and accused the defense minister, J uan Manuel Santos , to orchestrate the assembly to criminalize humanitarian work.
Later, the wikileaks that revealed the diplomatic cables sent to Washington from the US Embassy in Bogota ratified the Uribe government strategically used this material, planned delivery and Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos, appointed Deputy Minister Sergio Jaramillo for the job and he gave information to selected Colombia, United States, Spain media and several countries in South America.
Until the end of the Uribe government, the farcpolitics maintained in constraints several leaders, but Piedad Cordoba did not leave his mediation efforts to free the hostages by the FARC. However, in the final stretch of the presidential campaign of 2010, the Office raised charges against the congressman for alleged treason and alleged acts of collaboration and promotion with the FARC. The criminal chapter of the farcpolitics not find the same echo.
With the change of government, the first administration of Juan Manuel Santos was settle the fight with Venezuela. A month later came the Operation Sodom, which fell killed Mono Jojoy in La Macarena (Meta). When the echoes of this victory, on Monday, Sept. 27 Attorney Alejandro Ordonez kept announced its decision to dismiss the congresswoman Piedad Cordoba and disable it for public office for 18 years.
Ordonez asked the congressman was investigated for crimes against humanity and attributed the authorship of emails extracted from the computers of Reyes. The news caused a political stir, but Piedad Cordoba persisted in his humanitarian work. In April 2011, when the farcpolitics added to the Telesur journalist Freddy Muñoz and portal Anncol Joaquin Perez, the twist was in the Supreme Court.
to proffer an inhibitory car in favor of former congressman Polo Wilson Borja , in the third week of May 2011, the Court rejected the arguments of a forensic report prepared by Interpol at the request of the government Uribe and concluded the findings in Reyes’ computers could not be used as evidence, because it was unknown due process. That is, he had broken the chain of custody before the prosecutor knew them.
“Media pressure has probative value, but not the computers of terrorists” was the reaction of former President Uribe . “I recognize the quality of justice in Colombia because, in spite of political pressures, acted right,” said the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa. “That computer ended up being suitcase cat Felix, as shown every day something new,” he said from Venezuela the then chancellor Nicolas Maduro.
Off the judicial support the farcpolitics the June 10, 2011, with the presence of s General ECRETARY UN, Ban Ki-moon, President Santos passed the Victims Law, which produced the first comments detachment of former President Uribe. Else was coming in haste. Eight months later, in February 2012, the exploratory phase of the peace talks with the FARC in Havana (Cuba) was initiated
With the passage of time., Except in the case of former congressman Pedro Nelson Pardo, convicted of links with the FARC and other corruption turns, one by one they were dropping charges against those identified in the failed farcpolitics scandal. Only it remained in force the dismissal and inability to Piedad Cordoba. Last Wednesday, the State Council annulled the decision of the Attorney General and the matter closed chapter missing.
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