When Alvaro Uribe was elected president in 2002, he called for results in the fight against FARC. Thousands of innocent people will pay the price. Soldiers finally testify.
“I accept this legal responsibility so that the people of Colombia never live to see these heinous moments again,” said retired General Paulino Coronado. In the 2000s he was stationed in the Ocana region of Santander state on the border with Venezuela. At that time, President Alvaro Uribe was elected on a program of ruthless struggle against the guerrillas and especially against the most powerful of them, the FARC.
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All means were good and it was necessary to show results. Alvaro Uribe wanted to prove that he was the first president to advance an effective policy to “exterminate” the guerrillas. Whole regions were under their control, hundreds of people were held hostage by the FARC, including Ingrid Betancourt. For Uribe it was absolutely necessary to present results, even if they were on the fringes of human rights. Every time the army presented slain guerrillas, the president…
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