2024-01-15 02:41:01
In a private ceremony that was attended by family and closest friends, the funeral of Enilce López Romero, the former chance businesswoman known as ‘La Gata’, took place. López Romero died on Saturday night at the Costa clinic, in Barranquilla. The funeral services were held at the Jardines de la Eternidad cemetery, on the way to Puerto, around 4 pm on Sunday.
An attendee at the funeral responded: “If I cried for Diomedes Díaz, why not her, who was the queen of chance,” when asked if he was related to Enilce López. It is important to note that López was captured in early 2006 for money laundering and was initially in Bogotá’s El Buen Pastor prison for nine months.
Enilce López, alias La Gata, died. His funeral took place in the Jardines de la Eternidad cemetery in Barranquilla. | Photo: Cesar Flechas – SEMANA
In that prison, the former chance businesswoman began to experience feeding problems and requested to be transferred to a prison in Santa Marta. Alias ’La Gata’ obtained her freedom in 2008, but in January 2011 the Superior Court of Bogotá sentenced her to 38 years in prison for her participation in the murder of Amaury Fabián Ochoa Torres in the municipality of Carmen de Bolívar. in June 2000.
Enilce Lopez, aka The Cat
Who was ‘the Cat’?
The trajectory of alias La Gata caught the country’s attention following learning of several complaints of alleged links with paramilitary groups in northern Colombia. Later, the financing of politicians and then, his alleged participation in homicides.
The Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation for the crime of money laundering, since then his name spread in the media and the alias of La Gata made headlines. In 2006 she was captured and transferred to Bogotá. She spent several months in the Buen Pastor prison, until she was transferred to Santa Marta.
Enilce López, alias La Gata, died. His funeral took place in the Jardines de la Eternidad cemetery in Barranquilla. | Photo: Cesar Flechas – SEMANA
The sentence was 32 years in prison, the process that accompanied her until the day she died. Enilce López defended herself repeatedly, but the Prosecutor’s Office managed to demonstrate, at trial, her responsibility in the homicide that made her a convicted person.
Alias La Gata suffered, following her file was uncovered, a series of health problems that kept her in different clinics. On several occasions, complaints were made regarding her participation in politics from the detention spaces that she had, in clinics or the house arrest that she had following the request made by the defense.
Enilce López requested on several occasions to be heard by the Special Peace Justice (JEP), but following attempts it was not possible; Hence, her lawyer, Pablo Bustos, filed some claims before that jurisdiction following warning that many “truths” were now buried with the death of La Gata.
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