Around noon on Tuesday, May 9, 2023, a meeting of the Colombian President Gustavo Petro with the presidents of the high courts of the country; what generated controversy, is that the fAttorney General of the Nation, Francisco Barbosawas not invited -although- the head of the accusing entity will not be in the country for this date.
The lunch will be attended by the president of the Supreme Court of Justice, Fernando Castillo; the President of the Council of State, Jaime Rodríguez; the president of the Constitutional, Diana Fajardo; the President of the Judiciary, Aurelio Rodríguez; the chief of staff, Laura Sarabia; the Minister of Justice, Néstor Osuna; and the legal secretary of the Presidency, Vladimir Fernández.
This is the second appointment that the head of state has with the presidents of the courts; the first was when they met to discuss the 2023 budget addition, and the presidents received the proposal that 4 judicial offices were needed in different parts of the national territory.
What is known so far is that President Gustavo Petro will hold a conversation with the presidents of the high courts about the heated discussion he had with the Attorney General of the Nation, Francisco Barbosa.
For his part, Judge José Fernando Reyes Cuartas, Vice President of the Constitutional Court, attended an event in Medellín where he pointed out that the Court since its creation “has been the perfect guardian of the Constitution, the sovereign protector of human rights.” .
“The Court will be there, and it has recently made an important pronouncement, and that is that since in the recent past certain forms have been skipped, control of the Constitution has been evaded, the Court has taken its role seriously and has warned that it will suspend the laws that can be said to be grotesquely unconstitutional”, said the magistrate, and stressed that although the suspension mechanism has not been used the laws, this has always been in the Constitution.
Everything when the president started Gustavo Petro cited a newspaper article in which Daniel Hernández was accused of having ties and alliances with the criminal gang of gulf clan.
“The president retweeted a publication of the New Press of the alleged journalist Gonzalo Guillen in which he states that I have sponsored and assisted in more than 200 homicides of the Clan del Golfo, massacres and forced disappearances, a situation that is a total falsehood”, said prosecutor Hernández in his indictment.
In said article, it was denounced that Hernández blocked the investigations against the paramilitary group on the north coast of Colombia.
According to what was denounced by the journalist Gonzalo Guillén, Daniel Hernandez received alerts and police information about more than 200 homicides that were to be committed by the gulf clan on the north coast, “but he allowed them to be committed and immediately began to protect the 14 main murderers, who remain free and continue to commit crimes,” the journalistic investigation reads.
“Hernández has had to summon urgent work committees because the lives of human beings are at stake and assign tasks and communicate with the United States embassy, because there is drug trafficking, and request arrest warrants. But he never did anything, ”an investigator of the case told The New Press.
After knowing the publication of the media, Gustavo Petro He used his social networks to comment on the article:
“The State cannot sit idle in the face of the serious complaints that the journalist Guillén has been making about hundreds of homicides and the disappearance of citizens by the gulf clan. A CTI official informed high-ranking members of the Prosecutor’s Office of this in advance and they refused to act, allowing the deaths,” the president trilled.
