{"id":25777,"date":"2007-10-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/president-uribe-should-respect-independence-of-judicial-power\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:23:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:23:09","slug":"president-uribe-should-respect-independence-of-judicial-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/president-uribe-should-respect-independence-of-judicial-power\/","title":{"rendered":"President Uribe should respect independence of judicial power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(New York, 9 de Octubre de 2007) ? La interferencia del Presidente de<br \/>\nColombia \u00c1lvaro Uribe con las investigaciones adelantadas por la Corte<br \/>\nSuprema de Justicia de Colombia y sus reiterados ataques contra tal<br \/>\ninstituci\u00f3n constituyen una amenaza a la independencia del poder judicial,<br \/>\ndijo hoy Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n<p>El d\u00eda de ayer, el Presidente Uribe divulg\u00f3 un comunicado de prensa<br \/>\nsolicitando se investigue una denuncia seg\u00fan la cual el magistrado de la<br \/>\nCorte Suprema Dr. Iv\u00e1n Vel\u00e1squez habr\u00eda intentado persuadir a un detenido<br \/>\npara que brindara testimonio implicando al presidente en un asesinato. Uribe<br \/>\ndeclar\u00f3 que habr\u00eda recibido una carta de dicho sujeto, denunciando las<br \/>\nsupuestas presiones del magistrado.<\/p>\n<p>Uribe tambi\u00e9n ha reconocido que llam\u00f3 por tel\u00e9fono al Dr. Vel\u00e1squez, para<br \/>\npreguntarle sobre este asunto. El magistrado Vel\u00e1squez es el jefe del equipo<br \/>\nde la Corte Suprema encargado de investigar las relaciones entre pol\u00edticos y<br \/>\ngrupos paramilitares en los esc\u00e1ndalos popularmente conocidos como de la<br \/>\n?parapolitica.?<\/p>\n<p>?La Corte Suprema, a pesar de enormes obst\u00e1culos, ha logrado progresos sin<br \/>\nprecedentes en la investigaci\u00f3n de los v\u00ednculos entre paramilitares y<br \/>\npol\u00edticos cercanos al presidente,? dijo Jos\u00e9 Miguel Vivanco, Director para<br \/>\nlas Am\u00e9ricas de Human Rights Watch. ?La llamada telef\u00f3nica del Presidente<br \/>\nUribe al magistrado encargado de conducir investigaciones sumamente<br \/>\ndelicadas constituye una presi\u00f3n pol\u00edtica que podr\u00eda intimidar a la Corte y<br \/>\nafectar el resultado de estos procesos.?<\/p>\n<p>La Corte Suprema ha iniciado investigaciones contra docenas de congresistas<br \/>\npertenecientes a la coalici\u00f3n de Uribe, incluyendo al primo del Presidente<br \/>\nUribe, el senador Mario Uribe, por supuesta colaboraci\u00f3n con paramilitares,<br \/>\nquienes adem\u00e1s de estar vinculados al narcotr\u00e1fico son responsables de<br \/>\ninnumerables atrocidades. Como consecuencia de estas investigaciones,<br \/>\ncatorce congresistas se encuentran actualmente detenidos.<\/p>\n<p>Las declaraciones del Presidente Uribe se producen poco tiempo despu\u00e9s de la<br \/>\npublicaci\u00f3n de un informe de la prestigiosa revista semanal colombiana<br \/>\nSemana, acerca de las investigaciones realizadas por la Corte Suprema sobre<br \/>\nllamadas telef\u00f3nicas de algunos congresistas detenidos, en las cuales<br \/>\nparecer\u00edan estar tramando sobornos a testigos y funcionarios p\u00fablicos y la<br \/>\ndestrucci\u00f3n de evidencias en su contra.<\/p>\n<p>La Corte Suprema ha defendido al Juez Vel\u00e1squez, y ha solicitado que se<br \/>\ninicie una investigaci\u00f3n sobre una posible obstrucci\u00f3n de justicia por parte<br \/>\ndel presidente. El Juez Vel\u00e1squez, quien ha trabajado por dos d\u00e9cadas en la<br \/>\nrama judicial, ha negado en\u00e9rgicamente cualquier esfuerzo por involucrar a<br \/>\nUribe en las investigaciones, se\u00f1alando que, en cualquier caso, es el<br \/>\nCongreso, y no la Corte Suprema, la instituci\u00f3n encargada de investigar al<br \/>\npresidente.<\/p>\n<p>La versi\u00f3n de los hechos dada por el Juez Vel\u00e1squez habr\u00eda sido corroborada<br \/>\npor una fiscal que fue testigo de la entrevista de Vel\u00e1squez con el detenido<br \/>\nen el transcurso de sus investigaciones. La fiscal habr\u00eda dicho que el<br \/>\nPresidente Uribe nunca fue mencionado durante dicha diligencia.<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch subray\u00f3 que Uribe reiteradamente ha formulado<br \/>\ndeclaraciones agresivas contra la Corte y los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n que<br \/>\nest\u00e1n investigando a su administraci\u00f3n y a sus aliados pol\u00edticos.<\/p>\n<p>A comienzos de este a\u00f1o, cuando la Corte Suprema dictamin\u00f3 que la<br \/>\nConstituci\u00f3n prohib\u00eda el indulto por la conformaci\u00f3n de grupos<br \/>\nparamilitares, Uribe se enfrent\u00f3 a la Corte, acus\u00e1ndola de tener un ?sesgo<br \/>\nideol\u00f3gico.? Anteriormente, hab\u00eda arremetido contra destacados medios de<br \/>\ncomunicaci\u00f3n colombianos, cuando revelaron acusaciones seg\u00fan las cuales el<br \/>\nex jefe de inteligencia de Uribe, Jorge Noguera, habr\u00eda colaborado con los<br \/>\nparamilitares.<\/p>\n<p>La semana pasada, Uribe acus\u00f3 al periodista Gonzalo Guill\u00e9n de El Nuevo<br \/>\nHerald de hacerle falsos se\u00f1alamientos en un libro publicado por Virginia<br \/>\nVallejo, la ex amante del conocido jefe del cartel de drogas de Medell\u00edn,<br \/>\nPablo Escobar. Vallejo asegura en el libro que Escobar le present\u00f3<br \/>\npersonalmente a Uribe. Guill\u00e9n, quien ha escrito sobre vinculaciones entre<br \/>\nla administraci\u00f3n de Uribe y los paramilitares, y que previamente ya hab\u00eda<br \/>\ndenunciado serias amenazas contra su vida, ha declarado que \u00e9l no ha tenido<br \/>\nnada que ver con el libro de Vallejo ni con las acusaciones contenidas en<br \/>\n\u00e9l. Despu\u00e9s de las criticas de Uribe, Guillen anunci\u00f3 que hab\u00eda recibido<br \/>\nnuevas amenazas de muerte y que tendr\u00eda que salir del pais.<\/p>\n<p>?En un pa\u00eds como Colombia, donde periodistas y jueces muchas veces han sido<br \/>\nasesinados por sus investigaciones, el Presidente debe ejercer el mayor<br \/>\ncuidado para evitar incluso la apariencia de estar intimid\u00e1ndolos, o estar<br \/>\nponi\u00e9ndolos en peligro,? dijo Vivanco.<\/p>\n<p>Para obtener m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n sobre el trabajo de Human Rights Watch en<br \/>\nColombia, puede visitar:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.hrw.org\/doc\/?t=spanish&#038;c=colomb<\/p>\n<p>Para m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n, por favor p\u00f3ngase en contacto con:<br \/>\nEn Nueva York, Maria McFarland: +1-508-757-0357<br \/>\nEn Washington, DC, Jos\u00e9 Miguel Vivanco: +1-202-612-4330; +1-917-519-8363<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uribe should respect the independence of judicial power.  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