The photo of the Minister of ICT with ‘Ñeñe’ Hernández is not a montage

In the last few hours, a photo has gone viral on Twitter in which Karen Abudinen, the current Minister of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), is seen with José Guillermo Hernández, or better known as “Ñeñe ‘Hernández, a renowned breeder from northern Colombia, member of the high society of Valledupar and married to María Mónica Urbina, former national beauty queen, murdered in Brazil in 2019.

The image adds to the controversy in which Minister Abudinen is already embroiled for the 70 billion pesos bottled by a contract signed between mentally and the the temporary union of populated centers.

According to several journalists, the photograph was a montage, as Paola Herrera and Mauricio Jaramillo said on Twitter. However, the Colombia Check platform has verified that the image is real and comes from the Instagram profile of former model María Mónica Urbina.

“We asked three family members and friends of members of our team who have followed María Mónica Urbina, Hernández’s wife, on Instagram, to review her profile on this social network, as she has set it up as private”revealed the platform.

The photograph was uploaded by Urbina on August 8, 2018 with a message that reads: “what a great time we had”. This is the party that President Iván Duque offered, on the same day, August 6, 2018, “To his closest friends and to the main funders of his campaign”, according to an article in La Nueva Prensa.

José Félix Lafaurie, Alan García, former president of Peru, and Fernán Martínez were also present at the meeting, which was held at the restaurant Andrés Carne de Res in Bogotá.

Most of the country discovered who the “Ñeñe” Hernández was on the day he died, May 2, 2019, under rather strange circumstances. What happened then was that the “eñe” was leaving a fair that was being held in Uberaba, a city in the interior of Brazil, when they took a taxi which they apparently tried to get. steal his gold Rólex watch, valued at several million pesos. In the struggle, the assailants shot him three times in the abdomen and ended his life.

Condolences from politicians and artists were immediate, but one in particular caught our attention, that of former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, leader of the Democratic Center, party of President Iván Duque.

“The murder of José Guillermo Hernández, a farmer from Caesar, who was assassinated in a robbery in Brazil where he was attending a cattle fair, causes great pain.” said Uribe.

Thus, it was made public that since 2015, the “Ñeñe” Hernández had been the subject of an investigation against him for murder, August 18, 2011, of Óscar Rodríguez Pomar, son of the owner of Sastrería GQ in Barranquilla, Carlos Rodríguez Gómez, who was also a recognized money lender. With him, Ñeñe had a debt that exceeded 1,000 million pesos ($ 246,540).

Also, just a month after his death, his name came to be associated with one of the most dangerous criminals on the country’s north coast, Marcos de Jesús “Marquitos” Figueroa, a gasoline smuggler and drug trafficker who gained so much power in Cesar and La Guajira. (departments located in the north of Colombia) that even at the time of the paramilitary boom in the region, the men of Jorge 40 – paramilitary leader of the northern bloc of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia – failed to subdue his gang of hired killers.

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