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October 07, 2020 – 12:45 am
Newsroom of El País
Carlos Antonio Lozada, ex-commander of the Farc and today a senator for the party that emerged from the former guerrilla, revealed in the last hours more details about the murder of Álvaro Gómez Hurtado, a fact that former leaders of the then armed group recognized as his own. authorship.
In an interview with the newspaper El Espectador, the parliamentarian also known as Julián Gallo assured that the crime was carried out by the Antonio Nariño Urban Network, Ruan, of which he was commander at that time.
The ex-guerrilla told the newspaper that the order “was given by the secretariat and I received it from Jorge Briceño (alias ‘Mono Jojoy’), who was the commander to whom I was following orders. That order was transmitted through me and a command executed it. of four people from the Rouen “.
Lozada added that in the act “exclusively guerrillas from Ruan participated”, regarding the skepticism that the FARC revelation has aroused, since the assassination of Gómez Hurtado has been considered, for many years, as a state crime.
In fact, the journalist Gloria Castrillón asked the former guerrilla commander why members of the Army were implicated, to which he replied that it was a kind of coincidence.
“I believe that around the site there was a car or a secret intelligence operation and that first indication, which is a coincidence, led to the fact that, in the midst of the heated political environment, interpretations were woven by the intelligence agencies,” he said. Lozada, while adding that the researchers “were married to these conclusions and spent 25 years testing them, reversing the research process.”
He asserted that all those who participated in the murder of Álvaro Gómez Hurtado and even some “were killed by the police.”
“I think they managed to establish the facts there, but since they were killed, the State had to shut up. Faced with the murder and the barbarism that they committed with their comrades, they tried to hide those facts and diverted attention,” he explained, while saying that he will give more details to the JEP.
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He indicated that the decision to assassinate Gómez Hurtado “had been taken since the foundation of the Farc,” since his speech, he assures, “was the trigger that embarked all of us in a 50-year war with hundreds of thousands of deaths and torture. from all sides “.
Asked about the possible consequences that the event may have on his role as senator, he indicated that he hopes it will be understood that they came to Congress in recognition of their armed uprising. “We did lay down arms in exchange for political participation. It would not make sense to question the Agreement,” he argued.
The current member of the Farc political party assured El Espectador that they hope to put these historical responsibilities on the table “to advance in finding coexistence amid differences.”
Álvaro Gómez Hurtado was assassinated in Bogotá on November 2, 1995.
See also: ‘Joaquín Gómez’ acknowledged before the JEP, “without euphemisms”, that the FARC recruited minors
He also spoke about his role in the homicides of General Fernando Landazábal Reyes, also committed by the structure he led, and that of Jesús Antonio Bejarano, perpetrated by another network that was not under his orders.
When asked about why they were silent for so many years, he assured that the secretariat made the decision to keep it in reserve “until the moment was considered” when seeing “the fight between sectors of power.”
“This deepened much more until we had two sectors of the dominant elite facing each other without an explanation and now that we have delivered our version we are not believed,” he said.
Finally, he sent a message to the family of the murdered leader: “May they forgive us, that we find the time to sit down and listen to us. We are fully willing to do so, we know it will not be easy, hopefully they will listen to us.
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