Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday appointed a replacement for the ambassador to Peru who recently resigned to face charges related to his alleged ties to paramilitary groups.
Former congressman and FARC hostage Luis Eladio Perez will take the place of the disgraced former ambassador who was arrested in Peru in March and charged on Friday over his alleged close relationship with the founder of the AUC, a paramilitary organization held responsible for tens of thousands of human rights violations.
Perez, a veteran Liberal Party politician, was kidnapped by FARC in 2001 in a rural area of the southwestern Nariño department and was not released until 2008.