Yesterday, Monday, the mayor of Medellín Daniel Quintero reported that he will travel to Washington (USA) and that there he will report to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) the increase in threats against him and irregularities in what he called his dismissal.
“They tried to kill me 10 days before the elections (of the Medellín Mayor’s Office), that information also has the Prosecutor’s Office. These threats have been increasing in recent days and as the elections get closer, more threats have come,” said the local president.
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For Quintero it was necessary that his security scheme not be changed and he gave as an example Luis Carlos Galán, a candidate for the presidency of Colombia who was assassinated in 1989.
“Here they killed Galán after changing the security scheme. So for the same reason, it is necessary to bring to the attention of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights two important requests that I ask. First, that there are no changes in the security scheme because we know what happens in the country when people change their security scheme; second, that the control bodies be reminded that the only way in which a mayor can be removed is with a final criminal ruling,” said Quintero.
These declarations and denunciations of the mayor were criticized by his opponents and promoters of his revocation.
According to Andrés Felipe Rodríguez, the mayor is the one who has really harassed the opposition.
“Let us remember that it is Daniel Quintero who has harassed us, persecuted us, infiltrated us, has espionaged us, has illegally recorded us, has profiled us,” Rodríguez added.
(In context: Daniel Quintero will denounce threats and persecution against him before the IACHR)
Mayor @QuinteroCalle You have every right to go to the @IACHR @CorteIDHnothing else was missing.
Just as those who promote the recall (I’m not there) have every right that the @CNE_COLOMBIA make a decision on expenses and accounting in a timely manner.– David Suarez Tamayo (@SuarezTrinando) February 21, 2022
For him, making opposition in the city is already a “sin” and that there is a “municipal microdictatorship” in which the recall is sought to be avoided at all costs.
“He is free to go and say whatever he wants, what makes me curious is that he go out and say that, that he goes to the IACHR. Could it be that he already has information that we are going to recall and the vote is invertible and is he using the same petrista manual to avoid the recall?”, the leader of the recall questioned.
For his part, the councilman of Medellín, Julio González, said that said complaint regarding the recall is “absurd and what he wants is to violate the National Constitution, ignoring the fundamental constitutional right of the people.”
“The revocation is a political right, it is not a sanction,” he added.
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It should be remembered that Quintero had said that he is seeking before the IACHR that “stop the persecution by some control agencies, and Colombian authorities are reminded that democratically elected mayors can only be suspended through a final criminal ruling, thanks to the ‘Petro ruling’ that prevented the breakdown of democracy in Colombia. What the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights does is protect democracy and we hope that it will do so in our case,” added the mayor.
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