Colombia's military intelligence chief resigns over fabricated evidence in Venezuela report

by Adriaan Alsema October 1, 2019

Colombia’s armed forces’ intelligence chief resigned on Monday after media found President Ivan Duque had presented fabricated evidence of “narcoterrorist” activity in Venezuela.

In a press release, the Defense Minister said that the director of the Armed Forces’ Joint Department of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Brigadier General Oswaldo Peña, had requested his resignation.

Peña’s department provided the information with which Duque and Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo sought to substantiate the government’s claim that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was colluding with ELN guerrillas and FARC guerrillas.

In his second address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, Duque presented a report of more than 200 pages which he said contained proof that Maduro was colluding with “narcoterrorists.”

Newspaper El Colombiano and French news agency AFP reported that multiple images from the report cited as “proof” were actually taken in Colombia and not in Venezuela as claimed by the president.

More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-military-intelligence-chief-resigns-over-fabricated-evidence-in-venezuela-report/