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“Messrs. ‘Santrich’ and ‘Iván Márquez’ are stupid from here to La Candelaria, and they had no assessment of the importance of peace for the Colombian people, “said Gustavo Petro, in an interview with journalist Vanessa de la Torre on Caracol Radio.
The qualifier, according to the senator, is because both ‘Jesús Santrich’ and ‘Iván Márquez’ chose to take up arms instead of clarifying what was happening.
“In the midst of this trap, which they undoubtedly set, their immediate reaction, instead of having the resistance of peace; as Mandela did at the time and as the M-19 did when Carlos Pizarro was assassinated, It was throwing everything that had been done through the flasks and going to the mistresses, to a mess that today is going to cost us many lives”He warned.
“Santrich and Márquez are stupid who had no appreciation of the importance of peace for the Colombian people,” he said. @petrogustavo at 10 AM Today for Today @SnailRadio pic.twitter.com/Z9rMmIy5zY
– Vanessa De La Torre (@vanedelatorre) November 19, 2020
Petro was asked who was behind the alleged deception of the former guerrilla chiefs, and his criticisms were pointed directly at the former attorney general Néstor Humberto Martínez for the recordings that implicated them in a drug trafficking business.
“What happened was that the Prosecutor’s Office with the DEA built the possibility, through these conversations, of trapping ‘Márquez’ and then ‘Santrich’ in a drug trafficking business”Petro explained, and said that his arguments are based on the more than 24,000 hours of recordings that the investigating body had.
The senator assured, in the interview, that that “trap” was made by the Prosecutor’s Office through Marlon Marín, nephew of ‘Márquez’, and described him as “a professional scammer” who “stole” money from La Paz.
“He is a professional con man, he dedicates himself and lives off it. When the Prosecutor’s Office realizes the character in their hands, instead of prosecuting him for his crimes, they use him. He puts him at his service, and that decision had to be made at the highest level of the Prosecutor’s Office. Mr. Marlon Marín begins to work with the Prosecutor’s Office, and it is here where the most gruesome and the center of the debate begins, ”said the senator from Colombia Humana.
Petro said, in the interview, that it was the Prosecutor’s Office “the one that gave the five kilos of cocaine to trap ‘Márquez’”, and announced that next week there will be a debate on political control against former prosecutor Martínez.
“Marlon Marín is a scavenger, a swindler, a corrupt man”, as he described @petrogustavo to Iván Márquez’s nephew in an interview with 10 AM Hoy por Hoy @SnailRadio pic.twitter.com/uGwHUMkfk2
– Vanessa De La Torre (@vanedelatorre) November 19, 2020
‘Iván Márquez’ accuses and former prosecutor Néstor Humberto Martínez defends himself
The same former guerrilla chief ‘Iván Márquez’ had already referred to this issue by means of a trill, on November 11, where he pointed out that the five kilos of cocaine “came from the Office of the Prosecutor directed by Martínez.
But former prosecutor Martínez denied these accusations and, in an interview with W Radio, defended himself saying that “neither the coca nor the money was put by the Prosecutor’s Office, nor was it missing.”
Martínez contradicted a report that El Espectador presented on November 9, where journalist Édinson Bolaños warned, based on the recordings, that “The Prosecutor’s Office participated in a drug delivery, despite the fact that former prosecutor Martínez denies it”, and that “the DEA was carrying out an entrapment operation against the guerrilla negotiators.”
This is how Gustavo Petro reacted on the revelation of these new audios
Of course they wanted to extradite Santrich and Marques with cocaine placed by the prosecution and with agents at the service of the prosecution such as Marlon Marín and the DEA.
They passed them on the phone trying to get us involved, without succeeding.
They wanted the FARC to go back to war
– Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) November 10, 2020
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