The National Court judge, Baltasar Garzon, work as a consultant to the Organization of American States (OAS) in the verification process of disarming the paramilitaries, according to the Colombian newspaper "Weather." The news of the engagement by the OAS, advanced last month by ABC, was confirmed sources yesterday that agency in Washington, quoted by Efe.
The operation to find a job to judge in Colombia was conceived during the Ibero-American summit in Mar del Plata (Argentina), in early December last year, at a meeting between Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trinidad Jimenez, and his colleague Colombian Ángela Holguín. Spain will finance the hiring of Garzón, through its contribution to the OAS for the peace process in Colombia, which until now has been a million per year.
A few details need to be translated in two months, the judge will have an office in Colombia, from which work in the Mission Support for the OAS sent to the country in 2005 to verify the paramilitary disarmament. Then, the demobilization of 10,000 paramilitaries, known as death squads in the nineties fighting the guerrillas, was controversial. Many turned to rearm, a few were reinserted properly and most involved with other criminal gangs.
- Controversy.
The arrival of Garzón, Colombia appreciated by advising communities in their complaints of human rights violations, was not well received this time. While it is true that Garzón could handle key issues such as land restitution to victims of violence, from January, when it emerged that work with the OAS in Colombia, their presence did not like.
"Judge Baltasar is a question that bears a court injunction suspended by English courts (...) is investigated by a conduct which has branded the Colombian government and has caused a stir in the institutions' said the attorney Alejandro Ordóñez. "
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