“
I assume this legal responsibility so that the Colombian people never again, never live again these abominable moments
”, affirmed the retired general Paulino Coronado.
In the 2000s, he was stationed in the Ocana region, in the state of Santander, on the border with Venezuela.
At the time, President Alvaro Uribe was elected on a program of ruthless struggle against the guerrillas and especially the most powerful of them, the Farc.
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All the means were good and it was necessary to show results.
Alvaro Uribe wanted to prove that he was the first president to promote an effective policy to “
eradicate
” the guerrillas.
Entire regions were under their control, hundreds of people were held hostage by the FARC, including Ingrid Betancourt.
For Uribe, it was necessary to display results by all means, even if they were on the margins of human rights.
Whenever the army presented killed guerrillas, the president…
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