Despite the need to help stabilize the Middle East and recover fromrecent natural disasters, the United States should not reducesupport for Plan Colombia at this time. Colombia is an importantSouth American trade partner and democratic linchpin, andcontinuing this partnership will sustain stable markets for U.S.businesses and reduce the regional instability caused bylawlessness and narcoterrorism.
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Carlos Mario Aguilar, a.k.a. “Rogelio”
The Medellin mafia, the regional elite and the district prosecution teamed up in an attempt to take down late drug lord Pablo Escobar after his escape from prison in 1992.
District prosecutor Cruz Elena Aguilar was assigned to the National Police’s Search Bloc, which was trying to kill Escobar together with the DEA and Medellin Cartel dissidents, “Los Pepes.”
Aguilar’s brother Carlos Mario, a.k.a. “Rogelio,” was a member of the Escobar family’s security detail and an informant of “Los Pepes” until the late drug lord found out and vowed to kill the prosecution bodyguard in 1993.
March 1, 2021
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal threatened to expel one of former President Alvaro Uribe‘s political allies for calling victims of his death squads guerrilla associates.
Salvador Arana, Colombia’s former ambassador to Chile who founded his own death squad, asked the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) to release him from prison where he is serving a 40-year sentence.
The JEP threatened to expel the terrorist-turned-diplomat from the transitional justice system, claiming that instead of offering his victims compensation, the “Uribista” accused them of being guerrilla associates.
Arana has not made a serious recognition of the victims and the legal assets affected by his convictions. Instead, he has simply accused the victims of collaborating with the FARC-EP, engaging in administrative corruption and manipulating witnesses against him.
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In order for corruption to develop in a country without any major resistance from the highest levels of the State and politics, the State s judicial investigative bodies must be grabbed by the same criminal associations that steal from it.
For the country to be devoured by corruption, it has to devour justice.
In Colombia, this process took place, on a large scale, in the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, an institution created by the 1991 Constitution. Under the excuse of gaining instruments against crime, large international agencies advised it in the fight against drug trafficking and pumped in it with considerable resources.