There will never be room in the ELN for “traquetos” or “narcos” or for the vicious, with great honor. The dream of the DEA and the intelligence of the Colombian State has been to try to introduce us to a Trojan Horse that is linked to the drug trafficking business to show the “evidence”, the “queen evidence”. But we have always discovered them and their plans have failed.
They won’t be able to find any evidence, because there isn’t any, it’s that simple. We have told the truth, because we do not have crops, laboratories, routes, tracks, nor do we market their products. As we have proposed, at the moment there is an opportunity, we can carry out a national debate to address this issue of drug trafficking in depth and in that context constitute an International Commission to verify or verify whether what the ELN said is true and consistent with its practice.
They have never captured an ELN militant with a gram of cocaine, nor have they found any laboratory where it is processed. There is no record in the courts that has proven it. What the media have said are military and police set-ups, which have never been able to be sustained, they lack any seriousness.
As the plans of the DEA and Colombian intelligence have not worked for them, now, Petro pretends that through lies the reality is another, sad task in which they have placed him. They are pure lies that will keep going around in “opinion” for a while, but then everyone will know that Petro lied, it’s that simple. It is something that we should not think about so much. It is true or not, but in reality, not because Petro says so. Then we can say who the liar was: Petro or the ELN.
The same happened with the lies that were told about Camilo Torres, they talked ad nauseam that he was a bandit, a criminal, but now they can no longer sustain the same.
As Petro continues to listen to his friends from the Gang of 33, he now repeats that the ELN hires mercenaries of other nationalities. Not at all, in the ELN no one is paid, nor is it recruited. The combatants who join its ranks do so voluntarily, all of them go through combatant schools where they receive political, ideological and military training. That has been and will continue to be the strength of the ELN. Reality is not what Petro has in his head.
The ELN is a modest organization, we manage our resources judiciously, we go through needs on a daily basis. We have to make a lot of efforts to get the resources that are required to advance the struggle. I wish we had what we really need, so that our combatants would have the weapons both in quantity and quality. That way we would have many more fighters and better armed.
Narcoss and mercenaries are the Gang of 33, the laboratories they had in Catatumbo were in charge of processing, at that time, 12 thousand kilos of cocaine for the Mexican drug traffickers, said by the same captured “cook”.
It is surprising that Petro receives “intelligence” information from Rubén Zamora and Felipe Tascón, characters closely linked to the Gang of 33 and takes them as a reference for his actions. As well as that the Military Forces protect the gang in Catatumbo and as soon as they are attacked by our units they run to defend them and we end up confronted with the military.
Has anyone known or heard of any combat by the Military Forces or the Police against the Gang of 33 in Catatumbo? No, it does not exist. That means that there is a clear alliance with them or they are part of the State. And since the Gang of 33 are “traquetos”; then, the boomerang that Petro threw at us returned to his hands, or rather… he is hand in hand with them.