Far-right and military seeking to violently disrupt Colombia's anti-government protests: audio

[Judi Lynn]

by Adriaan Alsema November 11, 2019

Colombia’s far-right and rogue members of the military are plotting to violently disrupt anti-government protests planned for November 21, according to audio leaked to peace advocates.

A video of a masked man calling for violent protests published on social media by controversial former President Alvaro Uribe raised suspicion because the self-proclaimed rioter used military jargon.

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This suspicion was confirmed by Whatsapp audio messages in which a man with a Medellin accent is heard telling a man called Murillo that “I have a video to upload but I think what is said is very heavy.”

The same man, who claimed to be an associate of far-right activist Luis Emilio Arboleta, said he was assembling a fight squad to attack Medellin public transport stations and protesters trying to prevent violence.

A friend of mine with a lot of money told me that he was going to provide vests, and that if we had a hundred men he would provide vests for a hundred men… He said he will make sure we will be packed for any fight, that we become a public force, but like independent. And on top of that, he goes with us… Then he said that if we want he can provide a hundred truncheons, wooden ones that go unnoticed, not the typical black police truncheons. He said that he will get us a 100 vests and a 100 truncheons. But we’ll pound the lot.

Anonymous man

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