Santos ‘protected a terrorist': Colombia’s inspector general

Santos ‘protected a terrorist': Colombia’s inspector general
Oct 17, 2014 posted by Joel Gillin



The Inspector General of Colombia has slammed the president for “protecting a terrorist” over his decision to allow the FARC boss “Timochenko” to visit ongoing peace talks with his group in Cuba, local media reported Friday.

At a Conservative Party conference on the island of San Andres, Colombia’s top investigative official Alejandro Ordoñez suggested that the president didn’t comply with the law by failing to lift the capture order for Rodrigo Londoño, alias “Timochenko,” according to Caracol Radio.

“We public officials cannot simply do what we feel like. We must follow the law, and on this subject the authorization [to travel] for a member of a subversive group must go through the necessary to procedures. This did not happen,” Ordoñez claimed.

The Inspector General’s comments come a week after controversy arose after it was reported that Timochenko had secretly visited the peace talks between the government and the country’s largest guerrilla insurgency, the FARC, in Havana.

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