The woman who was arrested with Piedad Córdoba’s brother is already in the United States, and she will accept the charges and turn on the fan

In the United States, the ace is already ready to bring justice to this country in the face of the operation that is being carried out against the brother of the famous Senator Piedad Córdoba, Álvaro Córdoba, who has been extradited for drug-related offenses. Trafficking, but insisted once and for all. Again it was a trap. A few days ago, Libya Amanda Palacio, also delivered, who was caught alongside Alvaro as his partner, had landed and would be the one to light the fan.

SEMANA reveals the hitherto unpublished story behind the drug smuggling operation and the little-known details of the drug smuggling operation that today has Álvaro Córdoba behind bars in a US prison.

A few days earlier, under a strict but silent process, Palacio left her cell in El Buen Pastor prison, accompanied by two others. A woman bound for the United States on a Drug Enforcement Administration plane. But who is this woman who became Alvaro Córdoba on the ropes and who will become his executioner?

Before leaving Colombia, Palacio was clear about his goal, which is to cooperate with this country’s justice system, tell everything he knows, and thus achieve successful negotiations for his sentence. What is known is that the agreement in the United States has already begun so that its process is advancing rapidly. Commitment: Accepting the charges and responsibility and paving the way for becoming the key witness in the case.

The testimony of this woman is key, as she seeks to defeat the thesis that it was a trap but, on the contrary, it was an open and systematic drug trafficking operation, supposedly it was Alvaro Córdoba and it was she who was the mediator between the Mexican drug cartels and the now deceased president of the FRA defectors Colombian, Gentil Duarte, who was the supplier of cocaine.

What is known about this woman, who worked for a travel agency in Medellin, is that she was approached to participate in the drug trade and her main goal was to “do illegal business with Álvaro Córdoba” exploiting Córdoba’s alleged ties to dissidents. From Farc, in order to gain access to the drugs that were to be sent to the drug lords by the powerful Gentil Duarte.

The importance of this 44-year-old woman, as a witness, who moved discreetly, who was arrested next to Álvaro Córdoba, is clear and the authorities of the United States know it, because it was she who coordinated and knew the business they had. The process in detail.

Libya Amanda Palacio did not have an easy time getting to Álvaro Córdoba and via this road to Gentil Duarte. To achieve this, she contacted a friend of hers, a woman very close to the Córdoba Ruiz family, thus gaining confidence and completely immersing herself in criminal business.

Specifically, Senator for the Historical Pact, Piedad Córdoba, referred to this issue in Semana when she noted that “obviously this entrapment occurred. There was someone very close to us, a woman from the Liberal Party, who had been involved in politics with me and my brother for years.” I sent his two children to that person to study medicine in Cuba on a scholarship. She is the one who satisfies herself to call my brother and it was she who took him to that other lady and to these Mexicans.”

This is precisely Piedad Córdoba’s argument defending her brother’s innocence and insisting that his arrest, surveillance, and extradition was, in fact, part of a trap set against him by the United States justice system.

But, nevertheless, the argument of justice in the United States is also the confirmation of the existence of a criminal agreement, in which Álvaro Cordoba was a key link for trafficking with the Mexican cartels. This is why what Libya Amanda Palacios says is crucial, she is a first-hand witness to the modus operandi, because she knew the inside out and was part of the organization that allegedly acted as a middleman in the drug trade.

In addition to their testimony, they have interceptions, prosecutions, and photos that served as support for a court in the Southern District of New York ordering the arrest of Córdoba and the Palacio for extradition purposes.

According to the indictment, the recordings were made legally by DEA agents who staged a trap, posing as drug dealers and recording them shutting down a business in the city of Medellin.

El agente encubierto Matthew S. Passmore, uno de los que declaró ante la justicia de ese país, confirmó que establecieron un acuerdo con Córdoba y sus socios para conseguir cocaína en Colombia y Venezuela y que el alcaloide cumpliera la ruta a Centroamerica, para pasar a United State.

They were arrested more than a year ago in a prestigious sector of El Poblado, in Medellín, say the investigations that took place minutes after leaving an apartment where, according to the evidence, they were talking and closing a cocaine trafficking business.

Palacio, for drug trafficking, could face five to ten years in prison, and for this very reason he negotiates for the operation of the fans and manages to keep the minimum sentence.

SEMANA spoke with lawyer and human rights defender, Alex Morales, who represented Palacio in Colombia and said that “she has a positive concept of her delivery and it was perfected about 15 days ago. Thus, your defense in the United States will help you to make the decision that suits you in the legal technicality, and cooperate with justice He is always the best decision in these cases. Even the biggest presidents have done it.”

Attorney Morales confirmed that Palacios was connected to the drug buying and selling operation with DEA ​​officials and that these were the tests to be sent to the United States, the same tests that were carried out against Álvaro Cordoba. However, it notes that, in the face of extradition, “it is necessary, as has been proposed, to evaluate the guarantees that Colombians enjoy and whether it is really necessary to transfer a citizen to a foreign country or whether he can approach through the default situation and the administration of justice .without impunity.”

They are two sides of the coin in the same alleged criminal act. While Libya’s Amanda Palacios will accept charges, run the fan, and seek legal benefits in the United States, Álvaro Cordoba has already stated that he will plead his innocence on the grounds that he was a victim of a trap. The final word will be dictated by the Southern District Court of New York.