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“The assertions that Salvatore Mancuso makes in which he mentions me are the same that he made 13 years ago, without any proof other than his word, and that he has never been able to prove in any instance.”
This is how Francisco Santos, the Colombian ambassador to the United States, just answered Salvatore Mancuso’s accusations against him. And he announces that he will evaluate legal actions against him.
“The crimes committed by Salvatore Mancuso have already earned him 10 years in prison and surely many more await him in Colombia, which is more than we can say about his criminal adversaries who have not delivered truth or reparation for a single day of jail, ”Santos says in a statement.
(We invite you to read: Mancuso agrees to go to the Truth Commission and delivers names)
Defesna de Salvatore Mancuso will appeal the decision to deport him to Colombia.
It was demonstrated that the two times I met with Mancuso were as a journalist for EL TIEMPO and as director of the Fundación País Libre
The pronouncement of the diplomat and former vice president of the Uribe government is known 5 hours after a letter from Mancuso was released in which he says that he is ready to go to the Truth Commission and reveal political ties to his criminal structure.
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“I have denounced that situations beyond our control have not allowed the truth to be known, that is a historical reality, I remember when I publicly denounced the rearmament of some demobilized and they called me a liar, when I confessed that 35% of the members of Congress were people supported by the Auc they treated me as crazy, when I told about parapolitics they denied it, I revealed that I was living proof of what at that time I called State paramilitarism today a de facto State Agent and they treated me as delusional, they have used Coercive means to intimidate me, such as torture, threats, judicial persecution through assemblages such as those that I have publicly and judicially denounced, all trying to silence me, not to mention when I told in detail the relations of the State and the Auc, Colombia already knows what happened to me, as criminal revenge and to keep quiet I was extradited, because I related as collaborators, officials close to the presidential government idente ÁLVARO URIBE, as FRANCISCO SANTOS,
Today, Colombia’s Ambassador to the United States, JOSÉ MIGUEL NARVÁEZ, deputy director of the DAS, who was responsible for the death of JAIME GARZÓN, of PEDRO JUAN MORENO, personal friend and Secretary of the Government of the Antioquia Government, were very close to the AUC , I also narrated about some situations that occurred with PRESIDENT URIBE himself and despite all this, added to other situations perpetrated against us, we continue and will continue to honor our commitment to the victims and the truth, “Mancuso said in a letter to Álvaro Leyva.
Excerpts from Salvatore Mancuso’s letter on his alleged commitment to the truth.
They have spent 13 years researching
Santos Calderón points out that the Prosecutor’s Office has been investigating these claims for 13 years and “has never found any merit for any type of accusation by the justice system.”
“I have tried to speak with facts on this issue, at the time it was shown that the two times I met with Mancuso were as a journalist for the newspaper EL TIEMPO and as director of the Fundación País Libre, in a humanitarian effort to obtain the release of a kidnapped, “says the ambassador.
And he points out: “Given the assertions that he is making again today, I am evaluating initiating the corresponding legal actions against him.”
(Also: What Salvatore Mancuso will tell if the US returns him to Colombia)
“During the government of President Uribe we made the institutional decision to extradite them for failure to comply with their obligations with the process in which they participated and today I have worked so that they return to Colombia to continue responding for their actions. Once the process of returning to Colombia is finished, the country will be able to know the forceful actions that we carry out in this regard, “says Santos, referring to the diplomatic and political threads that moved so that Mancuso was not deported to Italy.
And he states that he hopes that, with the arrival of Mancuso and the other paramilitary leaders, the country will be able to clarify the displacements, massacres, and their participation in drug trafficking. “
In fact, Mancuso finished paying a 12-year sentence in the United States for drug trafficking and remains in an immigration jail, awaiting deportation to Colombia, as a result of an administrative decision by the Trump government.
(We invite you to read: the US said that what Mancuso knows put him in danger; And Jorge 40?)
However, his defense seeks to be left in that country, under the umbrella of the Convention against Torture.
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