Piedad Córdoba says she will bring to the IACHR the alleged ‘entrapment’ of which she claims to be a victim

This December 6, Former Senator Piedad Córdoba spoke from Carcas, Venezuela, where she is as an observer of the elections that take place in that country. He assured that he asked his lawyer, Eduardo Carreño, to report to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights – IACHR – the entrapment of which he is being a victim by some characters

Córdoba, assured in a video that there is “A false Mercy that supposedly communicates with Mr. Marlon Marín”, nephew of Iván Márquez, leader of the dissidents of the former FARC and who was in the scandal that led him and ‘Santrich’ to return to arms.

He also said that he never had business with Álex Saab, currently imprisoned in Cape Verde, for alleged links with drug trafficking and who is linked to the Nicolás Maduro regime in Venezuela. “I do not have business with Saab, neither does my son, that is totally false,” he said and said that this other case of entrapment will also take him to the IACHR and the Truth Commission.

“The entrapments that are part of a smear campaign to muddy my name, my son and my family”, Concluded Córdoba, who is now retired from politics.

Piedad Córdoba held a meeting with the Truth Commission for hours, in which she published a letter that she sent to the FARC insurgents, Iván Márquez and Jesús Santrich, asking them to lay down their arms and resume the peace agreement.

Córdoba, who was close to the guerrilla group during the years of negotiations in Havana, pointed out that she does not share the decision to return to the armed conflict but that, “Unlike many, I understand that it was not a whim.”

In the text, the former senator affirms that, although the country is just beginning to learn about the episodes “that ruined the peace process, today few have doubts that former prosecutor Néstor Humberto Martínez deceived the country.”

Córdoba proposes to the founders of the ‘Second Marquetalia’ that they return to civil life:

“It hurts me like no one else to see you up in arms, when you were destined to fulfill the same role performed in the construction of the peace agreement, leading your party’s bench in Congress and strengthening the political opposition inside and outside Parliament (. ..) I refuse to believe that the return to war is immovable “.

The former congresswoman, in addition to sending the letter to the FARC insurgents, assured that her lawyers are analyzing the legal actions they will take against the former prosecutor Martínez, which were also made known to international organizations.

“Néstor Humberto Martínez is a perfidious, as well as all those who supported him in his plan. In the same way, you and I know that those who directed the operation of combat battalion No. 12 and the other military aggressions in the then ETCR of Miravalle, Caquetá, during July 2018, committed a crime against peace, “he says in the letter. .

Córdoba also denounced the murders of former FARC militants, as well as what for her is a legal war against the signers and defenders of peace.

“Academics and researchers from different shores are already talking about a new stage of the armed conflict and how to characterize it, while the communities that are historically victims of exclusion and violence are already suffering the war every day as if the peace process had been just a blink in their torture”, he pointed out.

In the letter, the former senator asks Márquez and Santrich a series of questions: “What is required to rebuild the battered Havana Agreement to which you are subscribers as plenipotentiaries? Is the reestablishment of what was agreed in Havana by you and the Colombian State feasible? “

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