Senator Gustavo Bolívar went against former president Álvaro Uribe after the leader of the Democratic Center questioned the false positives. “I still think that social forgiveness is the path to reconciliation, but this guy doesn’t help. How dare you say that the ‘False Positives seemed like a strategy to dishonor democratic security’. Much cafre with the families of 6,402 victims of this monstrous genocide, “said Bolívar.
The phrase that bothered the senator of the Historical Pact occurred in the middle of some statements about the false positives that occurred in the middle of his government. Last Sunday they sought to present the report ‘Which truth?’, a primer organized by the Democratic Center and that was going to be shared this Sunday at the Tequendama Hotel. However, the event had to be postponed due to connection problems with the former president’s video call.
Despite this, the former president managed to make some statements in which he defended his government and questioned the false positives, pointing out that it could have been a strategy to affect his image. In addition, what he reflected in the text of that report was known.
“And I ask myself furiously, who came up with the idea of murdering innocents? The false positives appeared to be a strategy to dishonor Democratic Security and affect a government that had won popular affection,” was Uribe’s phrase in the report that annoyed Bolívar.
In the document, Uribe also made reference to the report presented a few months ago by the Truth Commission and He strongly questioned what was raised by Father Francisco de Roux, saying that “the truth is lacking.”
Uribe said that the document they presented is not intended to become an absolute truth, but that it is important to have several visions. “This writing, with tired keys, has no pretensions to absolute truth, which does not exist. The dogmas of faith are absolute, the truth is relative that increases its degree of approximation through debate. We want to contribute to this”, assured the former president in the report.
The leader of the Democratic Center mentioned that he had the “boldness” to write about the subject because the report of the Truth Commission fails to do so in many cases. He questioned that this institution, born from the Havana agreements, would have an “anti-democratic” origin, since the ‘no’ won the 2016 plebiscite.
“This damage to democracy was endorsed by the Constitutional Court, which accepted that a verdict of the people would be ignored in this way. The Government cleverly introduced in the constitutional norm, with express approval, that if the plebiscite was lost, it could be amended with a democratic procedure and then they chose the proposal of Congress,” Uribe said in the counter-report.
The leader of the Democratic Center questioned that at that time they talked with former president Juan Manuel Santos, but that their complaints were “useless” because they preferred to please “the FARC, Cuba and Venezuela.”
One of the complaints is that the former commanders of the FARC came to Congress without any kind of penalty. “For example, we proposed that those responsible for heinous crimes should not participate in Congress until after serving the alternative sanction,” questioned Uribe.
The former president stressed that after more than five years in Congress, the members of the FARC have not paid any kind of penalty or repaired their victims.
He questioned the members of the Truth Commission for having a notorious ideological inclination, with the exception of Major (r) Carlos Ospina, who resigned from that institution for these reasons and later also presented a counter-report with his investigations.
“This omission is not surprising, the Truth Commission, which due to its mission should record events regardless of political leanings, instead, it proceeded as a body at the service of strengthening the Agreement with the FARC,” said the former president.