Former Colombian paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso returned to his country to take on the role of peace manager and is currently detained in La Picota prison in Bogotá. This Tuesday, he stated that years ago they proposed to the self-defense groups to participate in a coup d’état in Venezuela and assassinate the then president Hugo Chávez.
Among the confessions he made in an interview with RTVC newsMancuso accepted that years ago they proposed to the self-defense groups to participate in a coup d’état and assassinate Chávez. “Us They asked us to participate in a coup d’état and in the assassination of President Chávez at that time. That was true”Mancuso said, although he did not mention any further details.
Mancuso explained that the chapter on paramilitarism is a «pending truth (…) is within the truths told» to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP).
«It is one of the pending truths that will have to be told to the country, to the world, to Venezuela at some point.«said the former paramilitary chief, who today did not say who or who made that request.
The former boss paramilitary He also said that the self-defense groups had been asked to attack Gustavo Petro, which is why he highlighted the willingness that the president now has to meet with him.
“At some point we were going to make an attempt on the president’s life and today we are going to meet, shake hands, build paths of peace and reconciliation. It is a strong message for the actors in the conflict (…) The path cannot continue to be violence”he sentenced.
Mancuso was deported on February 27 to Colombia from the United States where he served a 15-year sentence for drug trafficking and since then he has been held in La Picota prison in Bogotá, since in Colombia he is investigated for more than 75,000 crimes.
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