Rodrigo Granda, former commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, arrested in Mexico

On October 19, Carlos Antonio Lozada, a senator and member of the Commons, denounced on his Twitter account that Rodrigo Granda had been arrested in Mexico.

“They arrested Rodrigo Granda in Mexico, even though he left the country with the permission of the Equality Party JEP, they inform us that Ivan Duque’s government asked Interpol to activate the Red Circular on his way to Mexico, in clear violation of the peace agreement which states that they want to tear them up”

At the moment, the reasons for his arrest are unknown and the national government has not judged this fact, which if true, would be a serious blow to the final peace agreement being implemented in Colombia.

According to the Lozada, Granda traveled to Mexico with the permission of the JEP – Special Jurisdiction of Peace, a court created to judge war crimes in Colombia that were born out of the peace agreement – and during the trip, Evan Duque’s government had activated the INTERPOL Red Circular in order to arrest him.

According to Noticias Caracol, the national government says it does not know the complaint made by the members of the Comunes and has confirmed that the reason for Granda’s detention in Mexico is under investigation.

El Tiempo newspaper confirmed that the national government sources admitted that the arrest was recorded at the request of the Paraguayan authorities, as they confirmed that the FARC was involved at that time in the kidnapping and murder Cecilia Cubas-Josinki is a citizen of this country.

Kubas Gosinki was 31 years old when she was found in a grave in 2005, where she was buried after being tortured for more than five months. The young woman was a daughter Former President Raúl Cubas Grau and former Senator Mirta Gosinky.

According to La Nación, Granda is linked to the investigation into the kidnapping of the businesswoman and that justice in that country against the ex-combatant is an “open case and has an arrest warrant.”

Paraguayan authorities say that Granda was to serve as a link between Orly Jurado Palomino, alias Commandante Santiago, and the late Raul Reyes, for plotting the kidnapping of the businesswoman.

Rodrigo Granda Escobar, aka Ricardo Tellez, former Colombian-Venezuelan guerrilla was known as FARC Foreign Minister During his time as a member of the defunct guerrilla war.

In 2020, Granda was embroiled in a scandal for being associated, presumably, with whomever she is called then. The case of “Collados” in the FARC lists before the Special Court for the sake of peace. According to a member of the Partido Alternativa Revolucionaria del Común, it will all be about a conspiracy to harm the political community.

This was stated in an interview with Radio W, then Deny adding people to the lists submitted by the disappeared to the AKP To further the judicial procedures agreed upon in the 2016 peace agreement, Granda also denied knowing the people who appear to be speaking about him in the Prosecutor’s Office recordings.

“If you patiently listen to those recordings, there is absolutely nothing there. It’s still a campaign coming from the prosecutor’s office of the ill-fated Humberto Martinez […] Traps continue. So, over there, what you hear is a conversation between two people who have absolutely nothing to do with me,” the ex-fighter said at the station.

Granda continued his interference in the radio space, arguing that none of those responsible for the investigation he apparently sprayed had done anything. Find out, with the address of El Buen Pastor Prison, on the dates he was visiting. “I can guarantee you that I didn’t even come for a visit, not because I didn’t want to. First because I was kidnapped by the Colombian state, and then it became impossible for me, because it is our duty to visit our colleagues, as I have done with other prisons in the country.”

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