FARC assumes responsibility for the murder of Álvaro Gómez Hurtado

Álvaro Gómez Hurtado.

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 The Special Jurisdiction for Peace in Colombia (JEP) reported this Saturday through a statement that the former guerrilla Secretariat of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) assumed responsibility for the murder of six people, including that of politician and journalist Álvaro Gómez Hurtado, which occurred on November 2, 1995.

The statement indicates that three members of the former FARC-EP Secretariat signed the letter assuming responsibility: Julián Gallo Cubillos, Pastor Lisandro Alape Lascarro, and Pablo Catatumbo Torres Victoria, who also offered to contribute truth to clarify the events that occurred in these murders.

The murder of Álvaro Gómez Hurtado occurred within the framework of the scandal over the leakage of money from the Cali cartel to Ernesto Samper's presidential campaign in 1994, and weeks after Gómez Hurtado criticized Samper through his editorials in the newspaper El Nuevo Siglo, where he proposed that he resign the Presidency of Colombia.

From those editorials, the phrase came out: “President Samper does not fall, nobody is knocking him down.

But he can't stay either ”.

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Mauricio Gómez, son of Álvaro Gómez Hurtado, in a column published this Friday in the newspaper El Tiempo, insists that the true perpetrators of his father's murder are the government and pointed to "indications that link Ernesto Samper."

Former President Samper through a statement reported that he was "surprised" by the FARC's recognition of the murder of Álvaro Gómez Hurtado.

Samper added that he hopes to know the details in order to make a definitive ruling on this case.

The ex-president affirmed that he has been “a victim of the insults and slander of Álvaro Gómez's family”, as well as the “silence of the FARC regarding its responsibility in this homicide”.

Gómez also calls into question the statement of the former FARC secretariat, “I hope the JEP and the Truth Commission and the Attorney General's Office do not lend themselves to such a crude hoax that it hurts once again and in a very The memory of my father and that of all the victims who were on account of the disastrous and unworthy trial 8,000 are painful ”.

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To date, one person has been convicted of the murder of Álvaro Gómez Hurtado.

Héctor Paul Flórez, sentenced to 40 years, whom the Gómez Hurtado family has insisted that he is innocent and has campaigned for the Supreme Court to review the case, considering that he is a "scapegoat" for the crime.

Álvaro Gómez Hurtado is known for having been former president of the 1991 Colombian Constituent Assembly and leader of the Conservative Party, as well as the son of former Colombian president Laureano Gómez.

Laureano Gómez, leader of the conservative party, signed the Benidrom Pact with Alberto Lleras Camargo on July 24, 1956, where the National Front was created, ending the era of "La Violencia" and giving an alternation in power to the parties. Liberal and Conservative between 1958 and 1954 to end the bipartisan war that had raged in the country at that time.

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