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The senator of the Republic Julián Gallo Cubillos, former commander of the extinct FARC guerrilla, known in the insurgency under the alias of ‘Carlos Antonio Lozada’, He appeared this Thursday before the Tribunal of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP).
‘Lozada’ in its first voluntary version provided details of the assassination of the conservative leader Álvaro Gómez Hurtado.
At the beginning of the proceedings, the president of the Chamber requested when appearing to refer to the facts chronologically.
This is how Julián Gallo Cubillos started with the narration of the crime of the representative to the Chamber Pablo Emilio Guarín (1987). Then, he spoke of the murder of Hernando Pizarro León-Gómez (1995). Then, related about the crime of Álvaro Gómez Hurtado (1995). It also provided information on the murder of General (r) Fernando Landazábal Reyes (1998), the crime of Jesús Antonio Bejarano (1999), and finally referred to the facts against José Fedor Rey, which occurred on June 30, 2002.
Gómez hurtado case
“The role played by Álvaro Gómez Hurtado’s father, President Laureano Gómez, in that violence of the 1950s is known throughout the country”Gallo Cubillos recounted when referring to the assassination of Gómez Hurtado.
“It was Gómez Hurtado, as senator, who asked the government of that time, headed by Guillermo León Valencia, to unleash a military campaign against a peasant settlement with the argument that there there were independent republics, which did not recognize the state, that triggered the peasants to make the decision to rise up in arms declaring themselves persecuted by the oligarchy and the latifundismo ”, he continued.
According to ‘Carlos Antonio Lozada’, It was that “one of the triggers for the FARC to become an insurgent group”. He added that “since then, the order to assassinate Gómez Hurtado has been known.”
When referring specifically to the events in which the assassination was organized and occurred, the now senator acknowledged that “It was executed by the Antonio Nariño Urban Network, under his command, on November 2, 1995 ”.
He also disclosed that “There were four ex-guerrillas involved in the murder. Three of them were assassinated and one whom they recognized as ‘Sebastián’ deserted from the Urban Network years later and they have no knowledge of his current whereabouts ”.
He also related that in order to execute the crime against Gómez Hurtado “They had to collect data on the beginning of student vacations at the Sergio Arboleda University and the class schedule of the former political leader ”. He pointed out that “in less than a month the information was had and the facts were carried out.”
Faced with the questioning of “why so long between the declaration of Gómez Hurtado as a military objective for the FARC (1964, from the creation of the insurgent group, according to the story), until his execution in 1995”, ‘Lozada’ replied that it was due to the development of the operation of the Urban Network and the consolidation of the structure.
“In the 90’s, the FARC had the capacity to carry out these homicides,” he said.
Before the revelation, Bernardo Henao Jaramillo, lawyer for the Gómez hurtado family mentioned:
“You make a story, but unfortunately it is just that: a story without evidentiary facts. There is no way to prove what is narrated. For years, for example, we have not known the truth about the murder of Álvaro Gómez hurtado, or now we have an unproven truth like the one he tells us. As a lawyer I feel restless, ”said the lawyer.
Other cases
On the homicides of the representative Pablo Emilio Guarín and the former presidential councilor Jesús Antonio Bejarano, he assured that he had no further information.
Referring to the Bejarano case, he pointed out that The order was executed by the Joselo Lozada front and that the FARC had information that showed that he had orders from the High Government to prevent a Peace Agreement.
Faced with the murder of Hernando Pizarro León-Gómez and José Fedor Rey, former FARC combatants, the senator said that the order was given by ‘El Mono Jojoy’ and it was also executed by the Antonio Nariño Urban Network, under his command.
“All operations were carried out autonomously and independently (…) There was neither acquiescence nor collaboration, nor any type of relationship with State authorities because we were at war, “said the senator.
Citation | Pietà Cordoba
The Attorney General’s Office again summoned former Congresswoman Piedad Córdoba to deliver information related to the assassination of Álvaro Gómez Hurtado. The summons that was agreed for December 14 It is held after it did not attend a first meeting agreed last October.
Córdoba, is cited after assuring before the media that she had “Evidence and knew who was behind the crime, that later the members of the old guerilla of the Farc attributed themselves ”.
The Prosecutor’s Office reiterated its call to the former congresswoman insisting that his statement “is necessary”. However, in an interview in October, with the daily ‘El Espectador’, Córdoba said that, in his opinion, it is not the Prosecutor’s Office that is competent to know the information, but the JEP.
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