Colombia asked Nicaragua to revoke the asylum of Carlos Ramón González

With a joint statement, the Colombian ministries of justice and foreign relations They rejected the asylum that the Nicaragua governmentunder Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, He granted Carlos Ramón Gonzálezformer director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency (Dapre) and the National Intelligence Directorate (DNI).

Research for looting to the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD) during Gustavo Petro’s government point to González, former leader of the Alianza Verde Party, as a centerpiece. That is why the Prosecutor’s Office asked the Superior Court of Bogotá for an assurance measure against himand the Interpol, a red circular.

According to the Prosecutor’s Office, which has been based mainly on the testimonies of the former director of UNGRD Olmedo López and former sub -director Sneyder Pinilla, González coordinated the delivery of a coima of three billion pesos for the former president of Senate Iván Name and another one billion For the former president of the Andrés Calle Chamber. The Supreme Court investigates them.

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President Gustavo Petro himself asked Managua on August 15 to extradite González, after an official of the Bogota Embassy in Nicaragua requested the residence for the former director. The executive has denied being behind the petition. The Ortega and Murillo regime responded with a diplomatic note confirming asylum for González.

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The Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Justice assured that González “is required by Colombian justice for the alleged commission of crimes of a common nature”not for crimes that allow inferring a political persecution that would have been a reason to apply the asylum figure. Carlos Ramón González “faces a criminal process,” emphasized the portfolios.

The right to asylum, then, “may not be invoked by people for which there are founded reasons that have committed common crimes or a judicial action caused by such crimes has been filed,” added the ministries. The government asked Nicaragua “to reconsider his decision” and “revoke” protection of which González enjoys.

Managua held in his previous note for Bogotá that “Every person has the right to search and receive asylum in foreign territory in case of persecution for political or common crimes related to politicians. “The Sandinista Foreign Ministry remarked in a resolution that cannot expel González or return to his country because his rights would be violated.

“In no case can the foreigner be expelled or returned to another country, whether or not either of originwhere your right to life or personal freedom is at risk of violation due to race, nationality, religionsocial status or his political opinions, “the Nicaraguan government wrote. The Prosecutor’s Office charged González bribery, peculation and money laundering.

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None of the three crimes is political or supported by political bases. Since the accusing entity charged González in May, the whereabouts of the former president of the Green Party had been unknownuntil investigative work and searches for an even capture order revealed that it is in the Central American country.

Some journalistic versions have denounced that González, former M-19 M-19 like President Petro, He walked through the Colombian embassy in Managua between September 2024 and February this year. On November 5 of last year he obtained the residence. President Petro has denied any government support for former official.

In midnight this Thursday The president described as “powerful” the reasons why Ortega Murillo granted asylum. “Ortega does not want Petro,” he wrote in his X account, arguing that Carlos Ramón González fought in the confrontations of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) against the Somoza dynasty.

Daniel Ortega was part of the FSLN, a group that began as a Marxist movement and became a guerrillas that took power after the resignation of the last of the Somoza, Anastasio, in 1979. Petro claims to have denounced that Ortega “turned against the Sandinistas who made the revolution against Somoza”so he won his contempt.

“Carlos Ramón González was full body, as part of the Combatant Commission of the M-19, to fight in the war in Nicaragua against the dictator Somoza. M-19 officers were incorporated into the Sandinista popular army with military degrees“Petro Trinó, insinuating that asylum to González is a kind of remuneration for his role in the conflict.