Many Colombians today woke restlessly to the news responsible for the release in Spain of Luis Jhon Castro Ramírez, aka El Zarco, a demobilized member of the National Liberation Army (Eln) and well-known recruiter of false positives. The reason? In that country they confirm that they have not received the extradition request from the government of President Iván Duque.
Despite the fact that the authorities of the Iberian country, these versions say, made it available to Colombia, Bogotá has not claimed it, so the aforementioned criminal enjoys such an omission.
The Secretary of Justice, Wilson Ruiz, In dialogue with La W Radio, he assured that both the Ministry and the State Department had carried out all procedures to ensure that the known criminal was extradited to Colombia and not released, as happened.
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The minister assured Interpol argued that the air transfer from Castro Ramírez was not carried out due to the restrictions stemming from the coronavirus.
“Faced with the case of Luis John Castro Ramírez, known by the alias ‘El Zarco’I should point out that the Department of Justice and Law and the Department of State have followed all required procedures and have done our utmost to ensure that this member of the ELN is brought in to be accountable for his crime Colombian justice, the official said in the above station.
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The discussion is open. The reality is that ‘El Zarco’ is not in Colombia today Neither does Salvatore Mancuso, one of the leaders of the death squads operating nationally under the acronym of United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, AUC.
In this case, it was reported to be the sum of a surprising series of errors in Colombia’s procedures: from the corresponding times demanded by the United States authorities, loss of documents, and even sending papers in Spanish without them. to have translated into English.
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Public reason, a prestigious think tank, in an analysis of the case in which he summarizes that Colombia has submitted four requests to the US authorities to extradite Mancuso. “But they all had mistakes,” he concludes, summing up the claim.
1. The first two, sent April 15 and May 13, 2020, were based on arrest warrants issued by the Justice and Peace Chamber of the Superior Court of Barranquilla for crimes such as murder, disappearance and displacement.
The US court did not respond to these requests because the responsibility attributed to Mancuso is in charge of the organized group that committed them, and that responsibility does not exist in the US legal system.
2. The third and fleeting extradition request had to be withdrawn, as the crimes in question were already known to Justice and Peace, conviction and sentence served. Among these were some murders and kidnappings.
3. The fourth was not an extradition request, but a request for pre-trial detention for extradition purposes, which the State Department presented on Aug. 20 by order of the Justice and Peace Chamber of the Judicial District Court in Bogota.
4. Some media outlets pointed out that the request was not made in English, a requirement laid down in the extradition treaty between the United States and Colombia. To this, the State Department replied that it hoped to speed up the preventive detention process while translating the entire file to request an extradition request.
5. The foregoing indicates that the Colombian government has not submitted a request that meets the requirements for Mancuso’s extradition to Colombia.
Since this is the case, the confusion among many citizens is natural: why is Colombia failing in this way to bring in criminals of such caliber?
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