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This Thursday, throughout 10 hours, the First Committee of the Senate was pending the debate of political control to the former attorney general of the Nation in which serious revelations were made against the current candidate to be Colombia’s ambassador in Spain.
The summons were Gustavo Petro, Iván Cepeda, Antonio Sanguino and Roy Barreras, but it was undoubtedly Petro’s intervention that caused a stir because of what his revelations could mean because, according to him, Martínez manipulated evidence to muddy ‘Jesus Santrich’ in a drug trafficking negotiation that never really it happened and whose sole objective was to destroy the peace process.
Hours after the Senate session, the head of state spoke about what was said there and although he did not refer to the evidence with which Petro justified his statements, he did resort to sarcasm to remember who the former guerrilla commander was:
“I have seen in recent days some debates where it is a question of insinuating that alias ‘Jesús Santrich’ is a meek dove, he is a little angel of good pursued by justice, and that there was a framework to delegitimize his good name of a criminal career of decades ”.
The president made his statement during the closing of an event at the Casa de Nariño and stressed that the capture of ‘Santrich’ occurred before he reached the presidency, on April 9, 2018.
Duque added that said arrest was made for extradition purposes and based on the request of a United States federal judge “with conclusive and forceful information as the then prosecutor announced [Martínez] and the then president of the Republic [Juan Manuel Santos]”.
However, for Petro that is not the case, since I even dismiss the considered testimony of the authorities against the now fugitive and deserter of the peace. The senator assured that the DEA and the Prosecutor’s Office manipulated the image and audio of the video in which, according to the justice, ‘Santrich’ negotiated the purchase of drugs and the shipment of 10 tons of cocaine to the United States.
Duque also referred to the testimony of Marlon Marín, nephew of ‘Iván Márquez, although Petro also reduced his credibility because he said that he never helped the DEA to contact the former guerrilla chiefs because he was not from the Farc nor did he have good relations with them and that the only thing he achieved was that ‘Santrich’ negotiated poetry books but not drugs.
Later, the president recalled that days after his release, ‘Santrich’ ended up in Venezuela “meeting with his narco-terrorism cronies and making tartarinesque and threatening videos against Colombia; also protected by the narcocriminal dictatorship [de Nicolás Maduro] and now there are voices that want to defend and legitimize such a subject of the crime ”.
Finally, the president emphasized that “‘Santrich’ is a mobster, a narco-terrorist and is being persecuted by the Colombian justice and international justice and we are not going to falter in that purpose neither with him nor against any member of the ‘narcotalia'” .
Term with which he wanted to refer to the relationship of drug trafficking with the FARC dissidents that, in their rearmament video, called themselves the ‘new Marquetalia’.
It should be remembered that the government does not grant any political character to this group, as is the case with the Eln, but rather classifies it as one more criminal gang, and that is why Duque pointed out that “they will not have a refuge or hideout and we are going to confront as many times as necessary ”. This was his pronouncement:
Jesús Santrich is a gangster, he is a narco-terrorist who is being persecuted by the Colombian justice system and by international justice and we will not lose heart in that purpose: President @IvanDuque pic.twitter.com/ttnm8IUoGt
– Presidency Colombia 🇨🇴 (@infopresidencia) November 27, 2020
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