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With 850,000 votes, the highest rate of participation of a senator in the history of the country, and two weeks before Ivan Duque, his election offer, badumes the presidency of the Republic, No one doubted that Alvaro Uribe would become the new president of Congress
But a few hours before his coronation on July 20 the most powerful politician in history Colombia's recent decision to withdraw
. Dignity has remained in the hands of one of his most loyal squires, Ernesto Macias, little understood the reasons why Uribe was deprived of the opportunity to impose the Duque presidential belt, which pushed to the Nariño's house. The country learned from its own mouth what was behind this decision that even puzzled its Democratic Center bench
They did not hear me before. I feel morally prevented from being a senator. I will send my resignation letter so that my defense does not interfere with Senate duties
Via Twitter, the exmandatario announced that he had resigned from his parliamentary investiture because of an appeal to the Supreme Court of Justice: "They did not hear me. . I feel morally prevented from being a senator. I will send my letter of resignation so that my defense does not interfere with the duties of the Senate. "
His resignation is already drafted but has not officially arrived at the Senate Secretariat to be submitted to the consideration of the Plenary
But the simple announcement and the contents of the record against Uribe at the Supreme Court have unleashed a political and judicial storm in a key transition for the country that, in ten days, will look forward to Uribe's return to power
For the first time in history of the country an ex-President of the Republic is summoned by the courts to answer accusations of corruption and fraud, sentenced to terms of up to ten years. 19659004] And good that the process refers to allegedly committed behavior since February, its genesis goes back almost three decades.
The Guacharacas file
Indeed, it is related to the sup The formation of paramilitary groups in San Roque, a municipality of northeast of Antioquia where lies Guacharacas, the ancient emblematic hacienda of Uribe Vélez.
Juan Guillermo Monsalve, former paramilitary sentenced to 37 years in prison, badured the court that the alleged bishops of the former president, including the representative Álvaro Hernán Prada and the lawyer Diego Cadena, urged him and offered to change the testimony he had given in the lawsuit that Uribe had instituted against Senator Iván Cepeda.
In this courtroom he said that it was false that Cepeda paid him to testify against the Uribe.
The man, 40 years old, is the son of Óscar Monsalve, the butler of Guacharacas from 1986 until the end of 1996, and declared that he was aware of how the germ of paramilitarism was created there by creating the subway block, of which he was a part.
This version is one of the fundamental pieces of the trial that is followed, before the Superior Court of Medellín, the breeder and brother of the former president, Santiago Uribe, for the first time. Homicide and the conformation of the paramilitary group "The 12 Apostles". 19659004] This week, in several statements, the former president ratified his version: he badured that he and his younger brother are victims of a "media and judicial" conspiracy allegedly orchestrated by Cepeda.
"I asked the citizens to inform me about cases that I know about the manipulation of witnesses against me (…). They paid witnesses against us. Court has the unknown.I exercise my right to disbademble these testimonies, but political and journalistic pressures prevail "he declared
.The Criminal Chamber of the Court, however, In February, he did not consider it useful to investigate Cepeda and, on the contrary, he copied copies against the former President Uribe and several of his colleagues. close to being suspected of having manipulated witnesses
businessman Juan Guillermo Villegas Uribe, friend of the former president, spoke with the father and other relatives of Monsalve with whom, according to the Court, it was intended to discredit the testimony on the paramilitary presence in Guacharacas
But the The latter was made, to a large extent, by Monsalve himself and his wife. Through a sophisticated watch, the two recorded conversations with the lawyer Diego Cadena, lawyer of the Exmandatario.
The investigation, which was reactivated by Cepeda's lawyer, Reinaldo Villalba, documented at least three visits to the maximum security pavilion. in La Picota from Cadena's lawyer to meet Monsalve.
The approaches, says the Court, were made in two ways. On the one hand, a former paramilitary of Huila, Carlos Lopez, alias Caliche, reportedly contacted Monsalve and told him that he was a "very big man" (the deputy Prada, president of the Democratic Center in this department) knew that they were friends and that he had approached to convince him to record a video in which he "retracted his testimonies and reproached Cepeda for having offered him benefits to make statements".
Moreover, it was "urgent" to obtain the evidence because the video was going to be filed in the Supreme Court before February 23. This day was the deadline for Uribe's defense to file his appeal for reinstatement against the inhibitor in favor of Cepeda.
The ex-paramilitary would also have been targeted by his cellmate, Enrique Pardo Hasche, sentenced to 29 years for the abduction, in 1991, of the man of Eduardo Puyana, stepfather. President Andrés Pastrana.
The Court says that & # 39; Caliche & # 39; announced in Monsalve that a lawyer was going to be sent to his cell in Bogotá to record the video. Indeed, Cadena tried to interview on February 21 with Monsalve, but he refused. A day later, with the intervention of Pardo Hasche, he managed to achieve his goal
The same day, Uribe's lawyer, Jaime Lombana, and his mother-in-law, l & # 39; 39, lawyer María Mercedes Williamson, entered prison to visit Brown .
"Cadena and Romero sit at one table and Pardo at another, together with Dr. Lombana and Dr. Williamson Monsalve was the last to arrive on the site and guided by the signs of Pardo Hasche is went to the table where were Diego Cadena and Hector Romero (Monsalve's lawyer).
During the conversation, Cadena asked Monsalve to act on behalf of Dr. Álvaro Uribe Vélez and asked him to sign a document prepared to present it with the appeal for reconsideration filed against the decision of February "Supreme Court
EL TIEMPO established that even the High Court has the letter signed by Monsalve with an asterisk in which it warns that He was doing so under the pressure of the lawyer Cadena and Enrique Pardo .
And although there are audios of the process that have already been revealed, the Court has other cases in which Uribe tells Cadena how to approach Monsalve and the version qu & # 39; 39, he hopes to reach
. a trap "
But Uribe's version is radically opposed. He says that Pardo and Prada's representative were victims of a trap that eventually sprayed his lawyer Lombana.
" Mrs. Vicky Jaramillo told me that the witness Juan Guillermo Monsalve was repentant, that he wanted to correct the lies against me, that she knew through Ricardo Williamson, brother-in-law of Enrique Pardo (…) .I told him to tell the lawyer, who then made contact with Mr. Monsalve, "Uribe explained to the country in the networks.
He added: "He told me that (Monsalve) had asked him for legal advice and security, which I reacted to when he did it publicly and in front of me. the courtyard. Mr. Monsalve has tried to involve other people in the same trap, among them doctors Jaime Lombana, Ernesto Macias, Paloma Valencia, a deputy of Huila and Álvaro Hernán Prada, "Uribe writes in the statement released And at the same time he pbaded an incapacity to senate to be absent until August 3 for a fracture upon falling from a mare.
This announcement put on hold not only his resignation at the nomination of senator but the decision of the Court to keep your case or send it to the Attorney General's office of the nation.This latter scenario has been considered by some critics of Uribe as a shortcut for stay away from the orbit of the High Court.
However it is emphatic: "I have never evaded the Court for what they now invent that the resignation The Senate must remove the competition. The accusation of witnesses who bases me on facts accomplished as a senator, who maintains the jurisdiction of the Court ".
Magistrates informed of the process told EL TIEMPO that the law is clear when they state that after the resignation, the file must be forwarded to the prosecutor's office because the conduct reviewed has nothing to do with their role as a congressman. Copies have already been certified to The accuser to investigate the Cadena lawyer and the court called to testify to 31 people, including the convicted Enrique Pardo, Senator Cepeda and several paramilitaries.
The key parts of the process
Juan Guillermo Monsalve
He is an exparamilitar, 40 years old, son of the hotel master of Guacharacas, the once iconic hacienda of Uribe Vélez in San Roque, to the north-east of Antioquia: Sentenced to 37 years for paramilitarism He says that he went to the Metro block of self-defense groups, created by several breeders in the area.
Diego Cadena
He is a lawyer and claims to have the power of former President Uribe. manage certain court cases "on your behalf." As part of this tenure, he entered La Picota prison three times after learning that the former paramilitary Juan Guillermo Monsalve had expressed his intention to overturn a testimony against the Uribe
Enrique Pardo Hasche
He is serving a 29-year prison sentence for his participation in the abduction of Andrés Pastrana's father-in-law He was a cell mate of the ex-paramilitary Monsalve and in that role he sent the message, along with one of Álvaro Uribe's advisers, Vicky Jaramillo, that he was interested to rectify his statements
Álvaro Hernán Prada [19659037] He is a representative of the House of the Democratic Center and leader of this party in the department of Huila. He was called to make an investigation by the Supreme Court of justice in the same proceedings e against the former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez. Prada has already been warned and claims that he was a victim of a trap and that he does not know Monsalve
UNITY OF INQUIRY AND JUSTICE
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