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February 26, 2021 President Ivan Duque‘s far-right political party falsely accused an opposition senator of involvement of the kidnapping practices of demobilized FARC guerrillas in an ongoing smear campaign. Former deputy Justice Minister Rafael Nieto published an image of opposition Senator Ivan Cepeda on his Twitter with the byline “the voice of the kidnappers.” Cepeda is the latest to be smeared by the Democratic Center (CD) party that was founded by former President Alvaro Uribe, a former Medellin Cartel associate who is being investigated for war crimes. The former president last ...

Controversy continues over arrival of vaccine in Colombia Controversy continues over arrival of vaccine in Colombia Bogota, Jan 23 (Prensa Latina) Senator Ivan Cepeda persisted today in the controversy over information released by the Colombian administration about the arrival of the Covid-19 vaccine to the country in February. Through a message on Twitter, the politician and human rights defender ruled out that the inoculation will begin next month as Deputy Minister of Health Luis Alexander Moscoso acknowledged yesterday the non-existence of a certain date. Difficulties regarding logistic...

January 21, 2021 Colombia’s prosecution asked a Bogota court on Wednesday to revoke an indictment on fraud and bribery charges against former President Alvaro Uribe. Controversial prosecutor Gabriel Jaimes said he supported the former president’s writ that asked the Bogota Superior tribunal to revoke a ruling of a lower court to uphold the Supreme Court’s 2018 indictment. The allegedly criminal patron of President Ivan Duque resigned from the Senate in August last year to end a Supreme Court investigation after being placed under house arrest. The high court agreed to forward the invest...

January 11, 2021 Colombia’s late president Virgilio Barco personally approved the extermination of thousands of leftist political leaders and activists in 1986, according to local media. A source involved in the high-level plot told journalist Alberto Donadio that the military was in charge of the extermination of the Patriotic Union party after legendary Israeli intelligence chief Rafi Eitan proposed the holocaust to the president. Barco initially agreed to let the late Mossad executive, who captured former Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960, lead the extermination campa...

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