Colombia’s former Attorney General Néstor Humberto Martínez has harshly rebuked Colombia’s Vice President Francia Márquez, whom he has accused of being «delusional» in response to claims that during his time in the Attorney General’s Office FARC leaders such as ‘Jesús Santrich’ and ‘Iván Márquez’ were «entrapped» into renouncing the peace accords and returning to the path of arms.
«All the repudiation that has generated the handling of the expenses of the vice presidency and the use of the goose blankets, have delirious Doña Francia», has responded Martinez alluding to the controversy raised in Colombia by the 173 million (35,700 euros), which spent Casa Nariño in furnishing the facilities, including two pens of this mallard of four million each (825 euros).
Martínez’s departure is a response to some statements made by Márquez in a last interview to the newspaper ‘El Tiempo’, in whose pages he stated that some of the guerrillas of the now disbanded FARC who joined the 2016 peace accords «ended up leaving because of the entrapments that the whole country knows».
«It is a reality», remarked the Colombian vice-president in tune with other members of the new government of the president, Gustavo Petro, such as the Minister of Defense, Álvaro Leyva, who maintain that important figures of that guerrilla, such as Seuxis Pausias Hernández, ‘Jesús Santrich’, were «trapped».
In the middle of this year, the Truth Commission published a report whose conclusions stated that ‘Jesús Santrich’ had been the victim of a set-up by the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the Colombian Attorney General’s Office, whose head at the time, Néstor Humberto Martínez, authorized the use of cocaine to facilitate the arrest of the former guerrilla.
Martínez has always denied the major and has responded to Vice President Márquez that the judicial process against, for example, Luciano Marín Arango, alias ‘Iván Márquez, was advanced by the US Attorney General at the time, William Barr, for his relationship with the notorious Cartel of the Suns, allegedly formed by government officials and the Venezuelan Armed Forces.
«Could it be that France Márquez does not distinguish between the Attorney General of Colombia and that of the United States?» wondered Martínez, who has accused Márquez of being «looking for pretexts to benefit deserters who betrayed peace» and reminded him that «never» was ‘Iván Márquez’ investigated for facts subsequent to the Havana agreements of 2016.
