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Colombias former spy chief marries in Panama after govt files deportation request
Aug 29, 2014 posted by Matt Sterne
The former director of Colombias now-defunct intelligence agency, Maria del Pilar Hurtado, took vows in Panama in an alleged attempt to avoid deportation, local media reported Friday.
Hurtados marriage to a Colombian citizen with permanent residence in Panama was confirmed by Angel Alvarez, a lawyer who filed a lawsuit to overturn Hurtados political asylum and force her deportation to Colombia, according to Radio Blu.
Hurtados husband has been identified as Jose Arteaga, a Colombian citizen who appears as the legal representative of multiple companies in Panama.
In an interview with TVN News, Angel Alvarez said that the marriage does not relieve the former director of the DAS from deportation. There is no justification in law or any similar cases, he said. Hurtado is illegal and undocumented, so she should be deported.
The disgraced intelligence director fled Colombia in 2010 before an arrest warrant could be brought against her for conspiracy, illegal interception of communication, abuse of public power, and fraud. A wiretapping scandal within the DAS unfolded in 2008 after opposition politicians, media, and authorities discovered that Colombias now-defunct intelligence agency had been spying on the Supreme Court, journalists, human rights defenders, and politicians.
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Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,630 posts)When she went to Panama, the President was a slimy, loud, underhanded, wealthy right-winger, who wanted to have the ability to spy upon his political enemies by wiretapping them with our CIA's assistance, just like Colombia's former President, and Hurtado's boss, Alvaro Uribe.
Now they're both gone.
The ONLY decent thing that could happen would be to put her in prison, right along with others of Uribe's administration already there.