In dialogue with The Coronell Report, Salvatore Mancusoformer head of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia and now peace manager, revealed that the death of Vicente Castañoone of the founders of the AUC, was given due to the conspiracy of the Colombian government.
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“The high commissioner, with the National Government, organized the death of Vicente Castaño and they extradited the rest of us,” he said.
“This is a terrible situation where there was a conspiracy from the government itself to assassinate Vicente Castaño”he added.
Why was Vicente Castaño murdered?
“Vicente Castaño had sent him reason (to Alvaro Uribe) because the Peace Commissioner told Vicente to surrender, There was no idea that he was still illegal when we had all surrendered. The problem was that the government (at that time) had not complied“, he claimed.
In this way, he explained that Vicente Castaño told the Colombian government that if they committed to signing the agreements reached in the Ralito negotiations and before international guarantors, He surrendered immediately.
“If the agreements are not signed, I will not surrender because you are not breaching and I am not going to submit to that,” Mancuso said about Castaño’s words.
Faced with this situation, according to Mancuso, the Colombian government and the high commissioner for Peace decided to put together a conspiracy to assassinate the former paramilitary leader.
“This way, When we were touching truths, they began to move us former commanders from prison to prison so that we would not tell that.”held.
Details of the murder, who gave the order?
“I received a letter from ‘Gordo Pepe’, who was kidnapped and tied up by his family so that he could hand over Vicente Castaño“Through him they reached another person, the only one who could drive to where Vicente was on a farm near Ciénaga de Ayapel,”
“When Vicente saw that other cars had entered, he fired a few shots at those who were going there.members of the Dijin and demobilized from the Self-Defense Forces, and that’s when he died. They say he shot himself in the head in a bathroom when he felt that he no longer had an escape from the action of this joint group,” he explained.
Who else participated in the death of Vicente Castaño?
“From now on I don’t know who else participated. ‘Gordo Pepe’ explained to me the obligatory participation that he had in those actions,” he said.
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