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Viewing cable 06BOGOTA900, EXTRADITION: PARAS TRY TO SHIFT PUBLIC PERCEPTION

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06BOGOTA900 2006-01-31 21:12 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Bogota
VZCZCXYZ0000
PP RUEHWEB

DE RUEHBO #0900/01 0312112
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 312112Z JAN 06
FM AMEMBASSY BOGOTA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1800
INFO RUEHCV/AMEMBASSY CARACAS PRIORITY 7126
RUEHLP/AMEMBASSY LA PAZ JAN 7652
RUEHPE/AMEMBASSY LIMA PRIORITY 3199
RUEHZP/AMEMBASSY PANAMA PRIORITY 8737
RUEHQT/AMEMBASSY QUITO PRIORITY 3806
RUEHGL/AMCONSUL GUAYAQUIL PRIORITY 3429
UNCLAS BOGOTA 000900 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KJUS KCRM SNAR PGOV PREL KPAO CO
SUBJECT: EXTRADITION: PARAS TRY TO SHIFT PUBLIC PERCEPTION 
USING MEDIA 
 
1. (SBU) On January 21, a large advertisement appeared in 
Bogota daily El Tiempo purporting to be from concerned 
families of people detained in Combita (a maximum security 
prison in Boyaca department, and popularly known as the 
"waiting room" before extradition to the United States).  The 
cost of an advertisement of this size and placement is 
approximately USD 9000 to 10,000.  The advertisement follows 
similar efforts by paramilitary front entities (such as newly 
formed NGOs), which claim to be promoting "debate" on the 
fairness of the GOC extradition policy. 
 
2. (SBU) There have been nearly 400 extraditions approved 
under the Uribe Administration, and 134 cases in 2005 alone. 
Average Colombians disagree with the Uribe administration's 
policy toward extradition, according to public opinion polls. 
 
3. (U) Begin informal Embassy translation of newspaper 
advertisement. 
 
 
WHAT IT IS HIDDEN FROM THE COLOMBIAN PEOPLE 
 
The mothers, fathers, spouses and children of the prisoners 
awaiting extradition in Combita ) Boyaca, denounce the 
following before national and international audiences: 
 
FIRST: That any Colombian who has trafficked narcotics or is 
completely innocent and without a criminal record, can be 
requested in extradition by the United States.  Far too 
easily, without considering their innocence, the Department 
of State asks for the extradition of the Colombian with a 
simple diplomatic note that demands the arrest warrant be 
issued by the Prosecutor General's Office of our country, 
based on an &indictment8 with false, ambiguous, futile, and 
untruthful charges. 
 
SECOND: The person requested for extradition is confined in 
the penitentiary of Combita, where his/her rights are 
restricted and his/her communication with the media is denied. 
 
THIRD: The Criminal Division of the Supreme Court of Justice 
&looks8 at the documentation sent by the United States and 
opens the evidence per Article 518 of the Code of Criminal 
Procedure.  Even when the accusations are determined to be 
false, the Supreme Court of Justice rejects the evidence and 
orders that the case be approved.  In the requesting country, 
they deny justice and commit the crime of prevarication. 
 
Invariably, the Supreme Court of Justice rules in favor of 
the extradition. 
 
FOURTH: The file gathered with ignorance of the presumption 
of innocence, of equality before the Law, of the right of 
defense and of due process, all of these fundamental rights, 
goes to the President of the Republic who invariably orders 
the delivery of the required person to the United States, 
ignoring the power of our justice to investigate, to judge 
and to sentence the Colombians. 
 
FIFTH: We, the families of the extraditable persons, without 
the legal forum to express our concerns, demand respect for 
the family unit, which is broken by the expatriation of the 
father.  He abandons his children and spouse, who will not 
see their loved one again because the United States denies 
their visas and does not allow permission to visit them. 
 
SIXTH: The inalienable right as fathers, mothers and 
children, should allow us to demand the uninterrupted 
permanence of the family nucleus.  Our loved ones, if they 
have violated the law, should serve their sentences in 
Colombia, to conserve the protection of the family that is 
the vital building block of the society. 
 
SEVENTH: With careless disregard, a visa was denied to a 
Colombian mother that wanted to travel to the United States 
to pick up the body of her son who was killed in an accident. 
 Also, the decision in the case against Colombian citizen 
Juan Carlos Gmez Luna, whose extradition to the United 
States was approved by the Supreme Court of Justice and 
ordered by President Uribe Vlez, was eventually rejected by 
the prosecutor of the United States.  It was discovered that 
this compatriot was not the person that they required in 
extradition.  What does the Criminal Division of the Supreme 
Court of Justice actually examine? What does the President of 
the Republic evaluate in this process? 
 
EIGHTH: Cases like the one mentioned above are numerous, with 
 
more than 400 Colombians extradited up to date under the 
Administration of President Alvaro Uribe Vlez.  Until when 
Mr. President? Until when Honorable Magistrates of the 
Supreme Court of Justice? Until the Colombian family is 
entirely disintegrated? 
 
NINTH: The only country in Latin America that gives its 
children to foreign courts is Colombia. 
 
FOR A SOVEREIGN STATE. 
 
End informal Embassy translation of the advertisement. 
WOOD