The Ecuadorean judge who warranted the arrest for former Colombian
Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos is a terrorist ally and staging a
coup in Colombia, President Alvaro Uribe said Friday.
Santos’ arrest was warranted Monday because of his alleged personal and criminal responsibility in the March 2008 cross-border attack on a FARC camp that killed the rebels’ number two, Raul Reyes, and 25 others, including one Ecuadorean citizen. On Friday, the same judge asked international Police organization Interpol to put out an international arrest warrant for the former Minister.
Uribe, making a speech before north Colombian farmers, said he does not understand how the Organization of American States and the country’s in the hemisphere are so fiercely rejecting the coup in Honduras, while they remain silent towards this attempted coup, staged by a “terrorist ally entrenched in Ecuadorean justice.”
According to the President, the Ecuadorean judge is attacking Colombian institutions, supporting and sponsoring the terrorism of the FARC and vowed Colombia is determined “to pursue the bandits, no matter who protects them.”