In dialogue with La W, the mayor of the city of Santa Marta, Carlos Pinedo, spoke about the photographs revealed exclusively by this medium, which are in the possession of the authorities and State intelligence agencies, in which he is seen meeting with César Gustavo Becerra Gómez, alias ‘Camilo’who is commander and spokesman of the Conquering Self-Defense Forces of the Sierra Nevada (ACSN).
According to the images known by this medium, the president shared a effusive greeting with the member of the criminal group.
The meeting, which would have carried out in the Orinoco villagewould have taken place in the month of February 2024one month after inauguration of Pinedo as mayor of Santa Marta. Two months later, in April, alias ‘Camilo’ was captured at a checkpoint in the rural area of Santa Marta with short and long weapons.
In this regard, the mayor justified himself by assuring that it was not an agreed meeting, but rather a kidnapping: “I was detained and the people who held me were the ones who recorded me.”
Furthermore, he warned that there is a plot against himsince he maintained that “political contradictors want damage the name of Carlos Pinedo”.
“The version (of this meeting) is the complaint that is in the Attorney General’s Office (…) we were held by armed men carrying rifles. “I am not a friend of these characters,” said the president of the city of Santa Marta.
On the other hand, La W has also been able to learn that after the recent capture of alias ‘Muñeca’ and alias ‘El Menor’who were the main leaders of the Sierra Nevada Self-Defense Forces, are currently waging a quarrel internal to know who will take the place of these two criminals.
For this reason, a meeting was called to decide who will take over. command of the organization and of the line of drug trafficking. Who sounds like a possible new commander of the armed group would be alias ‘Pinocchio’.
“I was detained”: Mayor Carlos Pinedo responds after photographs with alias ‘Camilo’
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