Medellín: Daniel Quintero's complaints at the IACHR cause controversy - Medellín - Colombia

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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In Medellin they have dealt with 471 complaints of recruitment of minors - Medellin - Colombia

From 2021 to 2022, there have been registered 471 complaints of recruitment of minors in Medellín and the Municipal Administration has activated the routes for reestablishing rights related to this scourge.

This is because this February 12 is the International Day of the Red Hands, a day promoted since 2002 by the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), as a strategy to raise awareness about the scourge of the use and forced recruitment of minors in armed conflicts.

“From the Municipal Administration we have been joining forces to put an end to this scourge. That is why we have activated, between last year and 2022, 39 routes to make the rights of this population sector prevail. At the same time, we will continue working to promote prevention, protection and the promotion of the rights of children and adolescents”, said the secretary of Social Inclusion, Family and Human Rights, Juan Pablo Ramírez Álvarez.

One of the main strategies to mitigate the recruitment of minors is reporting. It can be done anonymously through the Early Warning System of Medellín -SATMED-, at www.medellin.gov.co/satmed or WhatsApp 3107154095. Also on lines 123 Social and 141 of the ICBF.

Anyone can alert about the existing risks in the territories and contribute to the strengthening of protective environments, through the Personería of Medellín, the School Protective Environment strategy of the Ministry of Education and the territorial Human Rights managers of the Ministry of Inclusion Social, Family and Human Rights.

“Children must be studying, playing, being in protective environments with their families, learning and, above all, dreaming of transforming their territories, their countries. Societies that empower their children are more peaceful societies”, expressed the Secretary of Non-Violence, Juan Carlos Upegui.

Juan – fictitious name, to protect his identity – was recruited by the ELN guerrilla since he was 13 years old. There he stood guard and participated in armed confrontations until he activated an antipersonnel mine. The army found him and in Medellín he entered programs to restore his rights through the Municipal Administration.

“Thanks to the programs of the Mayor’s Office, I can think about working, having a rent and food. I know that I will achieve it with God and with the Mayor’s Office of Medellin, which offers me help,” said the young man, who is now 18 years old.

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Cartagena: couple receives complaints from their neighbors for "very noisy sex" - Other Cities - Colombia

A Cartagena couple and their sentimental partner demand their right to have sex in the privacy of their apartment and ensure that the neighbors and administration of the building where they live persecute them for express your sexual passion on the privacy of your home.

This mess of horizontal property is presented in the Gemini building apartmentfrom the exclusive sector sky seain Cartagena de Indias.

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In dialogue with EL TIEMPO, the young woman, who asks to reserve her name, assured that last Saturday she came to live with her sentimental partner in the Gemini building, as they were delighted with the beautiful view that it offers of the Caribbean Sea and the Ciénaga de la Virgen.

public ridicule

What the administration did with this public ridicule without a previous legal process of co-ownership, that violates due process and violation of human dignity and the good name of the person

“Last Tuesday night, after 8 pm, in the privacy of our home, we made love to my partner, as we always have. But, suddenly, the security guard calls us to tell us that a neighbor is upset because hear screams and moans”, says the young woman, who put the case in the hands of her lawyer.

But the claims of this young woman go further and assures that from the administration of the building they have singled her out and humiliated her in front of others. residents of the Gemini building.

“First, they shouldn’t have called to interrupt us. But, furthermore, the next day the administrator came up, with several employees, which is demeaning, to scold me because according to her I couldn’t be intimate with my boyfriend in my room and told me that I ‘I have to control‘”, recounts the young woman, and adds: “They can’t make me feel guilty for enjoying my sexuality“.

According to the complainant, her neighbors have been recording audios with the sexual expressions of the couple. “The most delicate thing is that there is a neighbor who records our intimacy, she is spying on us and share the audios by WhatsApp“, he maintains.

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In dialogue with this newspaper, Viviana Navarro, administrator of the Geminis building, assures that the only thing that is required of the young couple is that they measure their sexual expressions so as not to interrupt the peace and rest of the families, with children, of the 105 apartments. of the private property.

“This is an exclusive complex and we have never experienced scandals of this nature. And I have the duty to mediate between the residents, and if this occurs in the first week of these people living together, what can we expect from the whole year of contract that this couple signed?”, expressed Navarro.

According to the complainant, in the last hours the administration made her sentimental partner understand that “it is better that we leave the building.”

Violation of human dignity and the good name of the person

The most delicate thing is that there is a neighbor who records our intimacy, she is spying on us and they share the audios on WhatsApp

According to the young today he is the target of stares, ridicule and malicious comments from neighbors and building officialsreason for which he resorted to a lawyer to defend his rights to the intimacy, honor and good name.

“Today we will file a written complaint with the co-ownership council of the building, because the administrator violated due process: when you live in co-ownership there is a regulation that governs everything that must happen in that co-ownership. The administrator could not have made a reprimand and less in front of witnesses in a matter as sensitive as the sexual intimacy of people, “says Joaquín Torres, the young woman’s lawyer.

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According to the lawyer, the regular conduct in this type of situation is to inform the co-ownership council so that an investigation can be carried out in accordance with the co-ownership statutes and regulations, and a sanction be established.

“What the administration did is a public mockery without a prior legal process of co-ownership, that violates due process and is a violation of human dignity and the good name of the person, and it is about fundamental rights,” concludes the lawyer. Towers.

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Biden Adviser Lander Resigns After Complaints He Bullied Staff

WASHINGTON – A top science adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden resigned on Monday after allegations came to light that he had bullied and demeaned staffers.

Eric Lander, who serves as director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, was the focus of an internal review after subordinates complained about his treatment of them. The review was first reported by Politico earlier on Monday and confirmed by White House press secretary Jen Psaki.

“I am devastated that I caused hurt to past and present colleagues by the way in which I have spoken to them,” Lander said in the resignation letter submitted to Biden.

Noting that he sought to push himself and colleagues by at times “challenging and criticizing,” he acknowledged that “things I said, and the way I said them, crossed the line at times into being disrespectful and demeaning.”

The allegations against Lander struck a nerve given Biden came into office pledging to take a hard line on any disrespect among members of his administration and turn the page from the derisive rhetoric of his predecessor Donald Trump.

“If you’re ever working with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot … no ifs, ands or buts,” Biden told political appointees during a swearing-in ceremony.

“Everybody is entitled to be treated with decency and dignity,” he said at the time. When asked about the allegations against Lander earlier on Monday, Psaki condemned Lander’s behavior.

“In addition to the full, thorough investigation, it was conveyed through meetings to senior White House officials directly that his behavior was inappropriate,” she said. “Nothing about his behavior is acceptable to anyone here – not at all,” she added.

On Monday evening, Psaki put out a statement saying Biden had accepted Lander’s resignation letter “with gratitude for his work,” citing his role in fighting cancer, climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.

Lander said his resignation should be effective no later than February 18.

Police face complaints of sexual abuse in Santa Marta and Putumayo - Other Cities - Colombia

Several women from the National Police filed a formal complaint for sexual abuse against him Colonel Francisco Gelvez Alemanwho until November of last year was Police Commander in the department of Putumayo.

The complaints date back to 2015, when Gélvez was operational commander of the Metropolitan Police in Santa Marta.

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Although the affected one, in this case the Second Lieutenant Maria Fernanda Padilla Crespo He exposed his situation to the Commander of the Table, and his case was archived without any consequences for the then Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Gélvez.

The uniformed women felt intimidated by the behavior of the senior officer

In WhatsApp conversations, my Colonel Gelvez writes me things that are out of the work environment. He wants Pachito to tell him, to give him pretty photos to his personal phone

In his statements, Padilla said that the senior officer constantly wrote him from his personal cell phone with insinuations.

“In WhatsApp conversations, my Colonel Gélvez writes me things that are out of the work environment. She wants me to call her ‘Pachito’, to give her beautiful photos to her personal phone, “said the second lieutenant.

Likewise, the woman assured that she received calls from the colonel in the early morning hours inviting her to drink liquor.

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Because María Fernanda Padilla refused the claims of the high-ranking officer, her job, according to her version, was impossible to cope with.

“I began to live in a heavy work environment and felt persecuted, since it was always pending whether I was at the station or not. However, I tried to cope with things in order not to have any problems with my work,” Padilla said. .

Investigated was awarded with a promotion as Colonel and with the command of the Putumayo Police

It is about a criminal plan against me, along with some people, who practically made them a script of what they had to say against me

The Human Talent Group of the Antonio Nariño School did not give importance to the complaint and finally filed the case, according to what is deduced from the response of the Police to a right of petition sent by Norma Vera, a human rights defender.

Francisco Gélvez Alemán was awarded a promotion to Colonel and the command of the Putumayo Police.

Recently, it became known that Colonel Gélvez continued his irregular behavior and harassed other women members of the institution.

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Mayor Nelson Andrés Serna, commander of the high school auxiliaries in Putumayo, said that several uniformed women felt intimidated by the high officer’s behavior.

Among the information that was known, There are uniformed women who expressed that the commander intended to kiss them by force, made morbid comments and even committed sexual abuse.

Colonel Gélvez, who requested the voluntary withdrawal of the Police, defended himself and assured that the accusations were false.

“It’s about a criminal plan against me, along with some people, who made them practically a script of what they had to say against me,” said the senior officer, who is being investigated by the institution.

By Roger Urieles
For THE WEATHER Santa Marta
@rogeruv

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