Between sobs, with a broken heart and aware that she is about to be sent to the United States to answer to the justice of that country for crimes related to drug trafficking, from Patio Uno de Extraditables of El Buen Pastor prison, the inmate Belcy Gómez Murcia, known by the alias of James Rodríguez or La Señora, sent a message of appeal to President Gustavo Petro, with whom she plays her last card to avoid being put on that plane.
The message, which is heartbreaking and in which he appeals to his children to be left alone in Colombia, Gómez Murcia picks up the proposal made by President Petro in which he stated that drug traffickers who collaborate with justice and tell the truth in Colombia do not extradited.
It really is hard the moment when, in the nearly three minutes that the audio in the possession of SEMANA lasts, the woman detained today in El Buen Pastor, who barely has a few hours or perhaps days left in Colombia, makes the plea: “That our condition as mothers heads of families be valued. Today I just received news that breaks my heart and that of my daughter, my minor daughter. She herself tells me: mother, don’t leave me, please, I need you”.
“I ask the national government to (inaudible) give this request from my youngest daughter. Let me clarify the facts for which the United States is required, ”she asks through tears.
The audio, which he hopes will reach the hands of President Gustavo Petro, was recorded today, from his place of confinement in the pavilion for extraditable women of the El Buen Pastor penitentiary and also asks the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Álvaro Leyva, to stop the request of the United States Government.
“At 4:25 today, September 6, 2022, my name is Belcy Gómez Murcia, with ID number 40,765,251. I am here in Patio Uno de Extraditables of El Buen Pastor prison, and I ask the national government, headed by our president, Gustavo Petro, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Álvaro Leyva, to assess and evaluate the extradition orders. , each and every one, especially mine, that we are wanted for extradition from the United States”, is heard in the audio.
Even the recluse, if nothing changes, will soon be wearing an orange overall, isolated, far from her country and from her relatives, and what causes her the most pain, from her children, she climbed on Petro’s proposal and She said that she would talk about the reasons for which she is blamed and would tell the truth, as the president proposed.
“I want to speak with the truth about everything that they blame me for, I ask the national government to immediately install a table in the El Buen Pastor prison, in the Human Rights space that we have in this prison, so that we can discuss and support and clarify the proposal that the president made to the United States in the request for extraditions”, he points out in the audio in which the cries of the children who share a place with their mothers in this Bogotá prison can be heard.
The audio is moving, at various times Gómez Murcia breaks, his voice trembles, he pauses briefly and, again, he cries again at the fate that already seems cast in his case.
“We want to clarify, we want to collaborate with justice, and if in one way or another we have made a mistake, forgive us, but please do it for our children (crying). A woman deprived of liberty speaks to you that today I am serving 11 months away from my daughter, and away from the beings I love, ”she says with a broken voice.
Belcy Gómez Murcia appealed to the efforts being made in the prisons, especially to the Social Movement for Reconciliation and Synergy Coexistence, which has established a dialogue and intermediation between extraditables and the Government, accepting President Petro’s proposal, but pointing to the “total peace” and “social forgiveness” to which the president has appealed.
“We ask you to please sit down at the negotiating table with the Church, the UN, the Synergy Movement, as guarantors. Mr. President, it is in his hands that he listens to us; please, I ask you from the bottom of my heart, we are mothers who are heads of households and we just need to be heard, I thank you from the bottom of my heart and I hope to be heard. Thank you very much”, ends the heartfelt message sent by the extraditable.
This is the last letter she has to stay, and although President Petro’s signature is already stamped to allow it to be sent, she clings to being heard and losing that flight ticket that will take her away from her family.