The letter from the Farc that produced the ‘last cry’ of Horacio Serpa Uribe

Days after the demobilized Farc sent a controversial letter to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace -JEP-, assuming responsibility for the murder of conservative politician Álvaro Gómez Hurtado and five other homicides that occurred between 1987 and 1995, Horacio Serpa Uribe’s son assured that his father wept with joy when he heard the news.

The letter was received by the peace court on September 30, 2020 and is signed by Julián Gallo Cubillos, Pastor Lisandro Alape Lascarro and Pablo Catatumbo Torres Victoria, and their lawyers. In fact, Galló assured that it was he who carried out the order to assassinate Álvaro Gómez.

Grass: They confirm the death of Horacio Serpa Uribe, former minister, former presidential candidate and liberal political leader

On October 5, Horacio José Serpa in conversation with Blu Radio, narrated what would be the last cry of the liberal politician after his death this October 31.

“Together with my mother we told her the news. Tears came out. He told me: ‘I am happy, I am happy, I have been unfairly beaten for more than 20 years for this absurd issue.’ We all really got excited, because it was a nice moment“Said Horacio Jr..

Former minister Serpa told his son that it is good to see that truth begins to be known, referring to the assassination of Gómez Hurtado.

An unsolved crime

On the date the political leader was assassinated, Serpa was Ernesto Samper’s Minister of the Interior, whom they pointed out to know of an alleged plan to assassinate Gómez Hurtado ordered by cartel del Norte del Valle.

The conservative’s own family accepted this thesis and even when the FARC claimed responsibility for the murder, in a statement they indicated that for them Samper and Serpa remain “the main suspects of the assassination”.

The former president did his thing and crossed out the Gómez Hurtado family of wanting to seek a State crime to obtain a millionaire compensation from the Colombian State.

Faced with this accusation by Samper, the conservative’s relatives reiterated that, although economic reparation is a fundamental right, this has not been “The purpose that animates our cause (…) to insinuate otherwise, in a perverse way, is a revictimization that damages the memory of Álvaro Gómez and outrages those of us who have been fighting for 25 years so that their crime does not remain in impunity: that impunity that the true masterminds of the assassination search so much “.

To what the Farc said about the crime of Álvaro Gómez, a contradictory came out, the dissident and fugitive from justice ‘Jesús Santrich’ who pointed out through a statement that “It is not true that the execution of Álvaro Gómez Hurtado was ordered by Mono Jojoy”.

In the statement it also says that it is not true that alias Mono Jojoy, “He warned the former FARC Secretariat about the homicide once the murder was committed”, nor that “a few days later, Manuel Marulanda (maximum former head of the FARC) directed all of us to remain silent.”

For now, the case of the Gómez Hurtado assassination will be investigated by the JEP, however, the Reconnaissance Chamber of the Peace Court postponed the date of the proceedings contribution to the truth of Julián Galindo Cubillos alias Carlos Lozada, due to an appeal for reconsideration presented by the family of the conservative leader.