The military attache leaves in Washington for scandal of “secret folders” – ELESPECTADOR.COM

This is Colonel Juan Esteban Zapata Cifuentes who is one of the 11 soldiers called to qualify services by the National Government after spying and profiling 130 people became known.

Colonel Juan Esteban Zapata Cifuentes, who had spent several months as a military attache at the Colombian embassy in Washington, United States, was called to rate services for the “secret folders” scandal revealed by Semana Magazine. These are possible mismanagements by the intelligence services of the National Army to track and profile nearly 130 people, including journalists, politicians and human rights defenders.

By decree 015 of January 2019, Colonel Zapata Cifuentes received the decoration “Order of Boyacá” in the rank of “Commander’s Cross”. A confidential record from June 2018 records the transfer of Colonel Zapata Cifuentes from the Military Intelligence Combat Support Command to the Command of Military Intelligence Brigade No. 1.

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According TimeZapata would return to Colombia on a humanitarian Air Force flight scheduled for May 20. Due to this scandal, Brigadier General Gonzalo Ernesto García Luna, who was in command of the Joint Intelligence and Counterintelligence Department, also left the Army; and Brigadier General Eduardo Quirós Chaparro.

Quirós Chaparro had left Intelligence after it was known that the Army was supposedly behind the sources that revealed to the New York Times the guidelines that would bring back “false positives”. Likewise, colonels Juan Pablo Prado, Julio López Cuadros, Helmont Ramos Naranjo, Hugo Díaz Hernández and Milton Rozo Delgado, and the elders Eduardo de la Torre, Hernán Villamil and Mauricio Quintero were called to qualify services.

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Non-governmental organizations requested the International Criminal Court (ICC) “their intervention” so that those responsible for the espionage of the be brought to justice. This was expressed by the Coordination Network Colombia Europe United States (CCEEU) in a document requesting the ICC to act “to deepen the analysis, within the framework of its preliminary examination activities that it is carrying out on the country, to ensure that those who are most responsible for these criminal plans for attacks against people who defend human rights are identified, prosecuted and brought to justice. “

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