Colombia’s Attorney General reportedly traveling to Ecuador with evidence of alleged ELN loan to Arauz’s campaign

Next Wednesday February 10th The Attorney General of the State of Ecuador, Diana Salazar Méndez, asked the Colombian Public Prosecutor’s Office to inform the authorities of the neighboring country about the alleged funding of the National Liberation Army (ELN) for Andrés Arauz’s election campaign, Correista candidate who won the presidential election in the first round last Sunday.

For this reason, prosecutor Francisco Barbosa was due to travel to Ecuador this Friday, according to Caracol Radio, with evidence linking candidate Andrés Arauz to alias Uriel, an ELN commander recently fired by the armed forces in Colombia.

Barbosa will meet with prosecutor Salazar to present her with a full report on the findings of the Colombian investigative agency after the analysis of the seized computers of the depressed ELN commander Andrés Felipe Vanegas Londoño, aka ‘Uriel’. According to reports, these teams would have found important information about the financing of the presidential elections in Ecuador.

As revealed by the magazine, one of the things that caught the attention of the Ecuadorian authorities, one of the things that could be obtained from Uriel’s computers, was that the illegal armed group is said to have a contribution, as a loan, of $ 80,000 to the Arauz campaign. After seeing this information in the Colombian media, the prosecutor sent a letter requesting that information.

In context: Murder of Álvaro Uribe’s children, kidnapping in Argentina and infiltrating protests in Chile: the plans of Uriel, the depressed Eln chief, are revealed

“We ask from the Attorney General of the State of Ecuador that there be a spontaneous exchange of information within the domain of the Attorney General of the nation who represents you,” he asked Barbosa in the letter.

Barbosa goes with the public prosecutor Staff of the National Police, who will explain the process by which the Colombian authorities obtained the information of alias ‘Uriel’.

For his part, candidate Arauz described the information as “false news”., while the former president Rafael Correa stated his dissatisfaction with the data revealed by the Colombian prosecutor and, moreover, the interest of the prosecutor Salazar in obtaining that information, which would disqualify her candidate from the presidential race.

“They keep making fun of themselves and want to damage the second round. They are desperate! “Said the Ecuadorian politician, adding, “and when do you ask to open the INA investment account? More than two years have passed since the report was made. If it’s Moreno’s brother, why don’t they open it up? Villain! “.

The strategy of the ELN in Ecuador

According to audios and documents in the hands of the Colombian prosecutor’s office, the ELN is openly supporting presidential candidate Andrés Arauz Galarza, an ally of former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, to bring his political movement back to power in that country. In the reports, there is evidence of a millionaire loan that the guerrillas would have for at least one campaign.

As revealed by the Colombian authorities, in a message on the computers of the guerrilla commander, Uriel asks two of his contacts in Ecuador about the money intended for the “lord of the southern butterfly MS”, that it would be the leader of the UNES (Union for Hope) platform, whose symbol is a colored butterfly and whose candidate is Arauz Galarza. “Community members have informed us of a $ 80,000 investment given to you in Barbacoas … our success depends on sustaining hope,” said Semana.

In that same conversation, Uriel tells his colleagues that the alliances were strengthened during the ELN’s participation in the 2017 Round Table, where they managed to consolidate the recognition strategy they were looking for and that it hoped to strengthen it with ‘our friend of the Belt’. According to what the Colombian authorities indicate, referring to former President Rafael Correa and the table he is referring to, the one for dialogue in the midst of the talks being held in Quito is seeking a peace deal between that guerrilla and the Colombian government, canceled after the attack on the General Santander Cadet School in Bogotá, in January 2019, which killed 22 soldiers, and which was awarded by the ELN.

In dialogue with Semana, Rafael Correa He called all these findings “ hoaxes ” and stated that they used the same strategy as when he ran for president, saying he had received money from the Farc.

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