Colombia's military attache to Washington removed over spying scandal

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Colombia Reports


by Adriaan Alsema May 10, 2020

One of Colombia’s military attaches to Washington DC is among the 12 army officials who have been sacked over a major spying scandal, newspaper El Tiempo reported Saturday.

According to the newspaper, Colonel Juan Esteban Zapata was notified his job in the American capital had ended on Sunday, two days after Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo announced 11 officials had been purged.

Trujillo said the officials’ early retirement was due to the National Army’s use of American resources to spy on local and foreign journalists, politicians, NGOs and even top government officials as reported by weekly Semana last week.

The country’s top military intelligence official, General Gonzalo Garcia, has also been fired, according to newspaper El Espectador.


Read more: https://colombiareports.com/colombias-military-attache-to-washington-removed-over-spying-scandal/

[paleotn]

1. Good ole School of the Americas....

churning out Latin American dictators since 1946. I'd bet dollars to donuts some of these guys are grads. As the old saying went....they may be brutal drug dealing thugs, but at least they're not commies. Personally, I never noticed much difference. One brutal thug is as bad as the next.

[sandensea]

2. Well said. They're just sorry they got caught, that's all.

They'll no doubt retire to a Miami condo now. Narco neighbors, optional.