'Corruption in Colombia is a pervasive problem at all levels of government. Colombia currently ranks 78 in the Corruption Perceptions Index.'
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'According to recent reports in Colombia’s media and testimony from former officials, between 2002 and 2005 the DAS was essentially at the service of paramilitaries and major narcotraffickers. It drew up hitlists of union members and leftist activists, and even plotted to destabilize Venezuela.
All of this happened under the tenure of Jorge Noguera, Uribe’s DAS director from August 2002 until he left under a major storm cloud of scandal in October 2005. According to Rafael García, the agency’s former chief of information systems who has made a series of explosive allegations, “Jorge Noguera became the Vladimiro Montesinos of Alvaro Uribe’s government. He conspired against the governments of neighboring countries, he did away with leftist leaders, he participated in narcotrafficking operations, he maintained relations with paramilitary groups, etc. etc.”
A witness in jail
García is making his charges against Noguera from the La Picota prison in southern Bogotá. As the official in charge of the DAS computer networks, he was arrested in January 2005 for taking bribes to erase and change the files of paramilitaries and narcotraffickers.
All of this happened under the tenure of Jorge Noguera, Uribe’s DAS director from August 2002 until he left under a major storm cloud of scandal in October 2005. According to Rafael García, the agency’s former chief of information systems who has made a series of explosive allegations, “Jorge Noguera became the Vladimiro Montesinos of Alvaro Uribe’s government. He conspired against the governments of neighboring countries, he did away with leftist leaders, he participated in narcotrafficking operations, he maintained relations with paramilitary groups, etc. etc.”
A witness in jail
García is making his charges against Noguera from the La Picota prison in southern Bogotá. As the official in charge of the DAS computer networks, he was arrested in January 2005 for taking bribes to erase and change the files of paramilitaries and narcotraffickers.
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Het is juist deze Colombiaanse geheime dienst DAS, waarmee Liduine Zumpolle nauw samenwerkt. En toch laten Pauw en Witteman haar ongestoord aan babbelen in hun praatprogramma. Dat kan in Nederland, waar de commerciele massamedia haar een 'mensenrechtenactiviste' noemen. De rest verzwijgen ze.
http://www.educweb.org/
Colombian intelligence agency DAS carried out illegal monitoring as part of a smear campaign against European organizations, including the EU parliament, according to leaked reports from the prosecutor general, reported broadcaster RCN on Wednesday.
Newly revealed parts of the judicial dossier on DAS's operations reveals that European organizations were targeted in order to undermine the influence of the European justice system.
This targeting including "following, apparently illegal," reports RCN.
According to the revealed files, the European Parliamentary committee on human rights, the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights and national governments, were agencies deemed a threat to the Colombian government.
The strategy of "Operation Europe" was to discredit such entities by creating press releases, website reports and by waging legal battles against them. DAS members attended NGO seminars, workshops and forums to compile confidential reports which included photographs and films of attendees.
The possibility of smear campaigns against U.S. entities is also being investigated.
European Parliament members call for wiretap investigation
4/28/2010 - Le Monde Diplomatique, El Espectador, Colombia Reports
Members of the European Parliament's Green Party called for the signing of the EU-Colombia free trade agreement to be put off until allegations that Colombian security agency DAS wiretapped the parliament have been investigated, reported Colombian media on Tuesday.
The appeal was made by members of the European Parliament (MEP) Barbara Lochbihler and Heidi Hautala - who is also the president of the Human Rights Commission for the European Parliament (EP) - who request that Colombian authorities explain the allegations.
According to a statement by the MEPs, "recent discoveries" show that security agency DAS tried to "influence" the parliament "through illegal means."
"The Colombian government needs to clarify in what way the DAS acted against non-governmental or political organizations to influence and disqualify decisions made by the Human Rights Commission for the European Parliament," said the statement.
The MEPs said the European Union should not sign the free trade agreement, scheduled to be finalized on May 18, without first having completely clarified the scandal surrounding the security agency.
The politicians also requested information on whether DAS possessed a list of which members of the EP support the Colombian government.
This follows news last week that leaked reports from the trial against DAS had revealed that the security agency had carried out illegal monitoring as part of a smear campaign against European organizations, including the EU parliament.
According to the files, the European Parliamentary committee on human rights, the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, and certain national governments were deemed a threat to the Colombian government.
Members of DAS have been previously accused of interacting with left-wing guerrillas, right-wing paramilitary, drug dealers and smugglers, among others.
In October 2005, the content of a tape arguably containing a conversation between Special Intelligence Group Director Enrique Ariza and other DAS members, apparently discussing plans to create an intelligence office with financing from illegal paramilitary groups, was published in the Colombian press. Unspecified sources accused Vice-Director José Miguel Narváez of allegedly leaking this tape as part of a setup in order to discredit DAS Director Jorge Noguera. Director Noguera resigned and Narváez was removed from command.[6]
Subsequently, Andrés Peñate was selected as the new DAS Director, together with the announcement of polygraph tests for DAS personnel and the creation of a commission tasked with proposing reforms and a restructuring of the DAS.[7]
Between January and March 2006, new allegations came to light about DAS-paramilitary relations and former Director Noguera's potential involvement.President Uribe publicly asked Noguera to appear before the Attorney General's office, but Noguera refused alleging economic and security reasons. Noguera was then acting Consul in Milan, Italy.[8] He later resigned, returned to the country and appeared before judicial authorities. On February 22, 2007 Noguera was arrested, accused of having ties to paramilitaries.[9]
On June 11, 2008, the Colombian Supreme Court ordered the immediate release of Jorge Noguera.[10] According to the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective, Noguera was only released to due to procedural defects; however the charges against him, conspiracy to commit a crime, misuse of authority through an arbitrary and unjust act, and improper use of classified or secret information, may still be prosecuted.[11]
On October 24, 2008 the head of the DAS Maria del Pilar Hurtado stepped down from her post after allegations that the agency had conducted surveillance on Senator Gustavo Petroand other left-wing political opponents of President Álvaro Uribe Vélez.[12] The incident has been dubbed The Colombian Watergate,[13] in reference to the Watergate scandal in theUnited States involving President Richard Nixon and wiretapping. The allegations were later admitted to be true after some internal memos were anonymously received by Senator Petro. One ordered that information be gathered on Petro's "contacts with people who offer to testify against the government.".[14] Hurtado said that she at no time had received or given any instructions linked to the incidents that were made public, and that she was stepping down to preserve the honour of the agency. Currently she is under political asylum in the country of Panama and has been requested in extradition by the Colombian Government [15] after having undergone Justice trial. Panama has declined the extradition to this date.
[edit]Dissolution
In late 2011 Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced that the DAS was to be replaced by a new agency,[17] the National Directorate of Intelligence(DNI). DAS functions included intelligence gathering, counter-intelligence, collection of evidence at crime scenes, providing security for high-ranking officials and immigration control.[17] The purpose of the new agency will solely be gathering intelligence.[17]
De DAS heeft een nieuwe naam gekregen, nu algemeen bekend is geworden dat de dienst gebruik maakte van doodseskaders om politieke tegenstanders te ontvoeren, te martelen en te vermoorden en natuurlijk om LIduine Zumpolle te beschermen.
Over het regime waarmee Zumpolle samenwerkt en over de huidige president Santos, en voormalige minister van defensie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Manuel_Santos
Niets daarover bij Pauw en Witteman. Zumpolle, zet je in voor de Colombiaanse burger slachtoffers van de al dan niet geuniformeerde terroristen met wie je samenwerkt.
Over het regime waarmee Zumpolle samenwerkt en over de huidige president Santos, en voormalige minister van defensie:
In 2008 the 'false positives' scandal was uncovered, referring to revelations concerning extrajudicial executions carried out by members of the military in order to artificially increase the number of guerrillas killed by the Army and claim rewards from the government.[12] On 4 November 2008, Santos admitted that the military had carried out extrajudicial executions and he pledged to resolve the issue.[13]Twenty-seven military officers, including three generals and eleven colonels, were sacked after an internal army investigation concluded that they were responsible for administrative failures and irregularities in reporting enemy casualties and operational results.[14] The Commander of the Colombian National Army, General Mario Montoya, resigned.[15] By May 2009, 67 soldiers had been found guilty and over 400 were arrested pending trial.[16]
There are different estimates for the number of civilians who may have been killed in this manner. As of May 2009, prosecutors were investigating more than 900 cases involving over 1.500 victims and 1.177 members of the Colombian security forces.[16][17] According to the Coordinación Colombia-Europa-Estados Unidos NGO coalition and the Fundación para la Educación y el Desarrollo, an estimated 3.756 extrajudicial executions occurred between 1994 and 2009, of which 3.084 cases would have taken place after 2002.[18][19]
Families of the victims and non-governmental organizations have held the Uribe administration and Santos, as Defense Minister, responsible for the extrajudicial killings because they consider that the government's reward policies motivated the crimes.[18][19] Directive 029 of 2005 issued under Defense Minister Camilo Ospina Bernal and presidential decree 1400 of May 2006 have been questioned for offering incentives and benefits in exchange for capturing or killing members of illegal armed groups.[17][19]
In June 2009, United Nations Special Rapporteur Philip Alston declared that extrajudicial executions had been carried out in a "more or less systematic manner" by numerous Colombian military personnel and found the number of trials for those implicated to be lacking, but stated that he had found no evidence of the executions being an official government policy and acknowledged a decrease in the number of reported cases.[20]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Manuel_Santos
Niets daarover bij Pauw en Witteman. Zumpolle, zet je in voor de Colombiaanse burger slachtoffers van de al dan niet geuniformeerde terroristen met wie je samenwerkt.
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