New controversy one month after commemorating the 25th anniversary of the assassination of political leader Álvaro Gómez Hurtado

The last to refer to the crime of the conservative leader was the former senator of the Liberal Party, Piedad Córdoba, who mentioned to the media that she had “clear and conclusive information” on the murder. And that “it would be good if those who did what they did tell the truth.”

Additionally, Córdoba stated, in the program El Debate of Semana magazine, “I do know something and for that reason I appear before the Truth Commission (…) the day I present myself again with this issue, I will do so with the evidence in hand.

These statements went viral after the armed attack against the armored vehicle in which the former senator’s security scheme was mobilized, on the night of Wednesday, September 30.

For its part, the Prosecutor’s Office confirmed, this Friday, October 2, that it summoned the former congresswoman to deliver the information she has on the murder of Gómez Hurtado, but it is unknown if it will be as a witness.

Mauricio Gómez, son of the former presidential candidate, spoke strongly against Córdoba, former president Ernesto Samper and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP).

Gómez assured El Tiempo that the former congresswoman, “a well-known friend of Ernesto Samper, not to mention her other members of Unasur, says that she has proof that Álvaro Gómez was killed by the FARC. An old and absurd thesis that does not have the slightest evidence base ”.

He also mentioned that he knows that his father was murdered because of how uncomfortable it was for what he calls the “regime”, of which he says “there is evidence that the DAS secret police monitored him daily” and in which the Prosecutor’s Office, in a “deliberate” manner, diverted the investigations into the assassination.

By last, Gómez asserted that “a factory of impunity” is being formed in which the Farc is being held responsible for different crimes and then tried in the JEP and in this way “whitewashed” them..

For his part, Enrique Gómez Martínez, nephew of the conservative politician, denounced, in an interview for Semana that, behind the crime of his uncle, would be the former president Ernesto Samper and the presidential candidate Horacio Serpa and that the assassination would have been carried out by the cartel del Norte del Valle in complicity with some policemen.

Thesis that former President Samper contrasted with the Truth Commission, in which he assured that the crime was part of a plot against his government by a group of soldiers from the 20th Brigade, who carried out the assassination and that he did not had a relationship. Arguments confirmed by journalist Jorge Gómez Pinilla in the book “The Secrets of the Assassination of Álvaro Gómez Hurtado”, in which after an exhaustive investigation he determined that the family of the conservative leader is in search of financial benefits.

Álvaro Gómez Hurtado was assassinated on November 2, 1995, in front of the Sergio Arboleda University, where he was a professor. This crime occurred in a period of political upheaval in which other leaders such as the Liberal Party presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán were assassinated and the country was in the midst of a scandal due to the alleged leakage of drug money to the president’s campaign elected Ernesto Samper.

The political leader who was a presidential candidate three times, two as a conservative and the last, five years before his death, for the National Salvation Movement once mentioned: “President Samper does not fall, nobody is knocking him down. But he can’t stay either “.

Gómez Hurtado, son of former conservative president Laureano Gómez, was elected by the National Constituent Assembly to draft the 1991 Constitution of Colombia, which had the participation of members of the M-19, a guerrilla that had kidnapped him between May and July 1988.

Paradoxically, the political leader had as his motto in his last presidential campaign: “Don’t kill people.