El coronel Alfonso Plazas Vega concurre a Corte en Miami por caso del Palacio de Justicia

0:00 The WU report, Colonel. We' re leaving for a court in Miami and a lot of attention to bonus track to the extra part of today' s Daniel report welcome. Good morning, July. This is the Colonel report. Colonel Luis Alfonso Plazas Vegas turns eighty. Next week to reflect the memory of Colombians and present it to the new generations. I must say that the colonel was the commander of the army cavalry school, the garrison charged with recovering the Palace of Justice in a thousand nine hundred and eighty- five, when he was criminally taken over by the then guerrillas of the 19th eMe. Unfortunately for the justice of the civilian victims and the country. The military return turned out to be as criminal as the guerrilla assault or perhaps more than one hundred and one people died, there were tortures of civilians, untried captures and twelve reports of disappearances. Colonel Plazas vega, who was not the only or the highest officer involved in these events. He became the most emblematic figure by the action of the attack vehicles, the so- called Cascabel and Urutu tanks, which shot at the palace, broke into the main gate and bent the correct ones. The recovery action was legitimate, but not in that way. The

1:30 sentences established by the international organizations have determined that there was a disproportionate use of force by the military and an indiscriminate attack that ended up killing civilians, including the president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the time, Dr Alfonso Reyes Echandía and ten more magistrates of the Council of State and the Supreme Court. That day having you in the background or the crossfire in the temple of Justice, journalist Edgar Telles of the TB news today of the time, asked Colonel Luis Alfonso Plazas Vegas, who wore helmet and fatigue uniform, which orders he had received for the operation. Plazas Vegas' response passed into history, changed his life and made him a celebrity to defend democracy. Master. Thirty- nine years after these events, the ghost of the Palace of Justice continues to persecute the octogenarian colonel, Judge Carlos Horacio Urán, assistant to the Council of State, left the building alive. As verified by a video published by a news research team. One who honoredly directed The grave is that his body, with signs of torture, was secretly returned to the ruins of the Palace of Justice of his murder. There' s plenty of evidence in the vaults of the northern canton. The then prosecutor Angel Maria Buitrago, found a list of

3:04 guerrillas from the 19th dice of discharge in combat in the Palace of Justice. The names of three judicial officials, including that of Judge Carlos Horacio Iran, appeared next to the guerrillas. They also found the murdered magistrate' s wallet hidden in the military archives. The autopsies, because there were several, since the body of Judge Urán was exhumed years later, determined that he was killed with a shot of grace, not by rifle, but by a pistol fired at close range in his head and that he suffered horrible torture before his unlawful execution for the events of the Palace of Justice. Colonel Plazas Vega was convicted in the first instance and spent eight years in prison. However, the Supreme Court acquitted him and shortly after that sentence, decided to settle in Weston, Florida with his wife, Doña Tania Vega, daughter of General Miguel Vega Uribe, who, by the way, was the Minister of National Defense for the days of the takeover and counter- taking of the Palace of Justice. Doña Tania Vega was a senator for the Democratic Center Party, which has such strong ties with Republican Party leaders in the United States. The process facing Plazas stems from a civil complaint filed by three daughters of the murdered magistrate Carlos Horacio Urán, Mairé Ciomara and Elena Uranbi de Gain who also represents her father. Colonel

4:39 Plazas Vega' s defense is invoking the cause of forum non conveniens for the case to be dismissed. He argues that the justice system in the United States has no jurisdiction over events in Colombia and that the country where these unfortunate events took place should be the seat of the process. He also says that in Colombia there are legal means for justice to be done in the case of the Urán sisters and that they would have to sue others and not Colonel Plazas Vega. The plaintiffs, for their part, represented by very prestigious law firms and human rights organizations argue that in Colombia the legal channels were exhausted, that only international justice could establish the reality of his father' s death. The judge has tried to rule, that the Colombian governments tried to ignore at the time and that Plazas Vega is a legal resident of the United States, which implies, in their opinion, that he must answer in that country for his actions.

5:45 Today' s hearing, requested by the complainants, is to present what is technically known as motion by summery and jusement, i e a brief motion for trial to determine whether the trial can continue without quoting a grand jury. And here comes the revealing surprise. The judge in the case is Rodolfo Armando Ruiz II. A lot of people just call it Rury. He is the son of Cuban parents and began his judicial career in Miami by appointment of the Republican governor of Florida Riscott, now a Republican Party senator. After Roberto Ruiz ' s resignation, Rodolfo Ruiz became a federal judge of the Southern District of Florida for the nomination of then- President Donald Trump. Senator Marco Rubio, also a Republican, publicly welcomed the Senate' s confirmation of Judge Ruiz.

6:47 Florida Federal Judge Rodolfo Rudy Armando Ruiz II, who today will decide the fate of the Urán sisters' case against Colonel Plazas Vega. It was the one who, of course, estimated the summons to former President Donald Trump for the capture of the Capitol' s Palacio Forgivance on January 6, two thousand and twenty- one. What do you think will happen to Bonus Track a few days ago here. In the report, Elena Urambi de Gain sincerely stated that she disagreed with President Gustavo Petro' s claim to claim to eMe nineteen its flags and its causes, ignoring the feelings of those who were victims of that guerrilla group. She clarified that, although everything indicates that her father died at the hands of the military, the responsibility of LM nineteen in the seizure of the Palace of Justice and other violent acts cannot be ignored. A few days ago, the viewer published Mrs Urana' s firm letter to President Petro, arguing that the vindication of the actions of the 19th eMe did not contribute to peace or reconciliation. The letter did not deserve an answer to Elena Urán' s position. She is particularly courageous because she works as a consultant to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia on issues of reparations to victims. In other

8:18 words, he worked in the last few hours. A foreign ministry official informed him that he would not be renewed. Everything indicates that she was punished for disagreeing with President Gustavo Petro. Elena Uran' s exclusion speaks poorly of Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo and speaks even worse of President Gustavo Petro. Little by little the feeling that petrism is a religion that does not tolerate heretics is consolidated. There is no right to dismiss the daughter of one of the victims of the Palace of Justice for not agreeing to glorify the flag of the EMI. Nineteen. This was today' s Colonel report Thank you very much.