The President of Colombia Iván Duque, during an interview with EL PAÍS, in Bogotá, on May 30, 2021.Camilo Rozo
In April 2022, while Colombia awaited the decision of the International Court of Justice on the border differences with Nicaragua, the General Command of the Military Forces prepared a document for President Iván Duque described as "top secret".
The text is part of the Secret Archives of the Army, the hundreds of thousands of documents leaked by the
hacktivist
collective Guacamaya through Forbidden Stories, a consortium of journalists based in Paris to which EL PAÍS had access.
The document, sent with a "copy to the presidency", warned of the presence of Nicaraguan intelligence officers in national territory and specifically in San Andrés and Providencia, the center of the border dispute.
"Very probably the Structure, Organization and operation of the G2-11 of the Nicaraguan Army already has a projection of cells in Colombia," the intelligence section sent in the file "April 8, 2022 Presidential Narrative" was titled.
“The G.2-11 is the tactical denomination given to a person who joins the Nicaraguan intelligence system to carry out exploration missions in states not related to the regime and project the performance of intelligence work in non-regime countries. aligned”, said the document destined for the Executive.
He also made a historical summary of this group and assured that it works in relation to Russia, Cuba and Venezuela.
“Nicaraguan intelligence worked with officers with little preparation and insufficient financial resources;
but the support of the intelligence agencies of the other socialist countries strengthened the institution and it has been increasing its covert activities to penetrate or infiltrate governmental, private and social organizations of the same country with a projection of countries that are not friends of the regime”, reads in one of the sections.
In Nicaragua, analysts and security experts told this newspaper that intelligence in that country "is an impregnable wall" and little is known about these groups, but it is not surprising that they have been operating in Colombia for a long time.
Right now there is an earthquake in the Sandinista apparatus due to the arrest of the head of political intelligence Daniel Ortega.
Adolfo Marenco was relieved of his post at the end of 2022 and is now in El Chipote prison, the worst dungeon of the Sandinista regime.
The Colombian military document anchored the strengthening of this group in the relations of President Daniel Ortega with Russia and Vladimir Putin.
"Relations are focused on the diplomatic and military levels, these two countries share training and training through their intelligence agencies on an ongoing basis," the Colombian military continued in their report.
The intelligence analysis also defined G.2-11 as a "structural system of a tactical nature that is articulated in areas and possible places of enemy operations at the territorial level" and "whose mission is to establish a nucleus, search for information , field survey, exploration of objectives and the creation of auxiliary networks”.
Based on this, it concludes that it would already be operating in San Andrés and Providencia.
In the last point of the document, the Colombian military suggests lines of intelligence or actions to continue with the investigation.
One of them is to identify the support that this group has from organizations in other countries, such as the Cuban G2, which according to the Colombians is "the guideline" to that of Nicaragua.
During the month of April, President Iván Duque did not refer to the issue.
On the 21st of that month, the International Court of Justice handed down a sentence that declared that Colombia violated the sovereign rights of Nicaragua.
The ruling demanded that Colombia "immediately cease" fishing activities in Nicaraguan territory, something that the government of Daniel Ortega celebrated.
According to Colombian experts in the dispute, the ruling also said that the new measurements carried out by Managua were not in accordance with international law.
On the day of that decision, in San Andrés and with a huge ship in the background, President Duque spoke about the sentence.
“The Government ratifies the institutional mandate to defend the sovereignty and integrity of the islands,” he said.
He added that "in no case is the presence of the Navy a threat of the use of force as Nicaragua claimed" and "that the Court recognized Colombia's right to navigate freely in the area to fight transnational crimes and drug trafficking." .
The discussion continued a month later when Ortega said that Colombia did not want to comply with the sentence to maintain the drug-trafficking business.
Duque replied that he was a dictator and that he would defend the sovereignty of Colombia.
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