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“I would like to express my gratitude to those who believed in us, despite that media offensive of lies without evidence that was unleashed; first against my name and status as a revolutionary, and then against Iván Márquez and other colleagues branded as drug traffickers.”
Thus begins the video (broadcast by N45) in which alias Jesús Santrich he thanks those who defend him from the drug trafficking case.
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The dissident is especially grateful to Roy Barreras for the debate he promoted on the alleged entrapment in the drug case.
His statements come after opposition congressmen (Roy Barreras, Iván Cepeda and Gustavo Petro) summoned a debate this Thursday, in which they accused the Prosecutor’s Office of executing an ‘entrapment’ against Santrich, in the case of drug trafficking for which he is investigated.
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In the debate, in the first commission of the Senate, former prosecutor Néstor Humberto Martínez was accused of being behind a covert operation: “Everything obeys a script to sow evidence with the intention of involving people from the Farc, who had made a peace agreement; in an alleged drug business “ Senator Gustavo Petro specified.
The accusations were rejected outright by former prosecutor Martínez.
And, in this context, the guerrilla, today in the dissidents ‘Nueva Marquetalia’, explains his return to the mountains: “People who believed in us have our gratitude, especially those who understood the determination to take up arms again driven by institutional perfidy and other betrayals.”
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With camouflaged and rifle in hand, he adds: “I would like to thank those who, trusting in our reasons, also believed in the reconstruction project of the Farc-EP. To thank Roy Barreras, who had no ideological identity with us, but dared with others to defend our innocence and act for the peace of Colombia. ”
Iván Cepeda was one of the summons to the debate.
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Cepeda, Córdoba and Leyva
And it continues to mention politicians: “We also thank people like Iván Cepeda, Alirio Uribe, Piedad Córdoba, Álvaro Leyva, who did not allow themselves to be intimidated or cornered, by those who tried to become allies of the guerrillas, in war purposes, when in reality , their real role was to be defenders of peace“.
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The former senator Piedad Córdoba is described by the guerrilla as brave.
And it also refers to the intervention of the DEA in the case. “Those who accused us and repeated the false arguments of the gringos, and of a regime kneeling to the empire, eaten to the bone by escandals such as the political Ñeñe, or the links with Memo Fantasma, then we call them to reflect, to understand that with hatred and lies, it is our entire country that suffers the consequences of the conflicts that are raging. ”
(We invite you to consult here all the articles of the EL TIEMPO Investigative Unit)
Carrying the Tavor rifle, which he exhibited last September, the guerrilla assured that the commitment of this dissidence is, as the head of the extinct FARC, Jacobo Arenas, said, with the peace of Colombia.
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