He Minister of Defense, General (R) Pedro Sánchezconfirmed that research on the attack that ended the life of the Senator and candidate Miguel Uribe Turbayon June 7 in Bogotá, they include the hypothesis that the National Liberation Army (ELN) I could have some kind of relationship with crime.
“Organizations that live from drug trafficking could be very surely related to the murder of our senator Miguel Uribe”, Said the senior official, who said that within the investigative lines are the ‘Second Marquetalia’, the Eln and the Front he leads aka ‘Iván Bite’. “They are hypothesis and when it is already confirmed by the Prosecutor’s Office, we will know who was behind it”He stressed.
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The death of Uribe Turbay, occurred after more than two months in a Intensive Care UnitNot only reconfigures the political scenario, but, according to security experts, it raises a large -scale judicial challenge: to determine if behind the homicide there are unpublished criminal alliances between armed groups.
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What would have to do with the second Marquetalia and the ELN?
Precisely, in the last hours, the head of the Defense portfolio had revealed that José Aldinever Sierra Sabogal, aka the ‘Zarco Aldinever’leader of the second marquetalia, was killed by the ELN near the Colombian-Venezuelan border, in the midst of a dispute over the control of a cocaine shipment.
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“The ELN murdered the ‘Zarco’ Aldinever of the second Marquetalia very close to the Colombian-Venezuelan border for the fight for drug trafficking. Apparently, among themselves stole a cargo of cocaine and a criminal struggle between posters was developed”Said the minister.
Pedro Sánchez, Minister of Defense
He added that the authenticity of the statement with which this armed group claimed death was validated. “Through our intelligence organisms”And corroborated with other technical and human sources.
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For Sánchez, this fact shows a deep fracture within the dissent, which “has no political objective”And whose motivation would be strictly criminal, What could reinforce the hypotheses about the mobile of the attack against Uribe Turbay.
As for judicial advances, the minister stressed that on the same day of the attack the alleged material author was captured and, in less than a month, another five involved, which, in his opinion, allows “have almost all of the aggressive, at least those who planned this magnicide at the lowest level, and already gives us important connections”
The risks for election security
The case has also had immediate repercussions on political security. After the attack, the Ministry of Defense, in coordination with the National Police, the Ministry of Interior and the National Protection Unitreviewed the protection protocols for presidential candidates and leaders at risk.
“The threat is latent. The important thing here is to evaluate the risk, identify it very well and take measures to mitigate. The measures depend not only on the person, but also on the place”Sánchez emphasized.
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Presidential elections
Specialists in Criminal Law and Security warn that the judicial challenge is not limited to clarifying the authorship of the attack, but to dismantling the networks that enabled it. The probable participation of more than one organized armed group implies, according to analysts, a criminal coordination that the State must face with intelligence, international cooperation and extraordinary resources.
The case, in addition, It could become a reference on how the country investigates and sanctions crimes against public figures in an electoral context. If links are confirmed between organizations such as the ELN and the ‘Second Marquetalia’, the judicial file could open doors for concert imputations for terrorist purposes, drug trafficking and aggravated homicide.
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