The DEA, Cooling Agents

By: Antonio García, Primer Comandante of the ELN

It became fashionable for alleged peace negotiators such as Araña and now HH to be requested for extradition by U.S. Courts, accused of exporting cocaine. Reports say that in those latitudes, since 2019 it was already known that HH was sending cocaine in respectable quantities. The Supreme Court of Justice has already given its approval to this request.

To put it in context, we must go back to what happened in July 2017. In that year, the ELN’s National Directorate decided to send Commander Alexander, a member of the DN, to the south of the country to continue redirecting several incorrect practices in the structures of Nariño. It did not last 6 months, as he died in an alleged military operation on July 9, where curiously only he died. The undercover agents guided the Army to where he was camping and pointed it out so that the sniper could shoot him dead. There, next to him was Jairo one of the infiltrators, he saw him fall and received the last orders, today third in command, under the tutelage of HH and Juan Carlos.

From that moment on, alarms went off in the ELN, as they began to throw the responsibility on other comrades to distract the focus of attention. HH continued to be “surly” for a while and did not want to move anywhere else. Little by little, he regained confidence as he sent infiltrated agents to other structures, according to a plan drawn up by state intelligence.

The governments of Santos and Duque had not managed to “crown” the strategic objective, to dismiss one or more members of the Central Command; for this reason, at the very beginning of the current government, the star plan against the Central Command was reactivated in form, so that once the “objective was crowned” they could restart the dialogues with a bang, as they did with the ex-FARC. At the end of 2022, in this eagerness to materialize this plan, HH was discovered and had no choice but to take refuge in Nariño. Until that moment there was no political contradiction, HH always showed himself to be “distrustful” of the dialogues with the government and a champion of non-demobilization.

Of course, he had been exposed and could not continue as an “undercover agent”, they had to place him in another plan, where in addition to protecting him, the State activates him in a supposed peace plan with demobilization on board, a real “express” and incidentally make believe that there were fractures in the ELN. What was happening was discussed with the Government Delegation, since they were events in “full development”, they only complied with saying that it was “paranoia of the ELN”. The infiltration plan was macabre, with poisonings of ELN commanders included. Isn’t it a violation of IHL?, and in the middle of a functioning dialogue table. It can perfectly be said that we were dealing with intelligence operations against the ELN, with the purpose of collapsing the peace process. The government delegation did not listen, or rather, let the plan go ahead.

The ELN continued, it ‘swallowed a lot of toads’ to carry out the purposes of peace, but the cascade of breaches of agreements continued, which we are tired of repeating and is not the subject of these lines.

It is already known that the Gang of HH demobilized, and supposedly disarmed, but it is well known that they handed over the most deteriorated weapons and the best quality ended up in the hands of the United Self-Defense Forces of Nariño (AUN), paramilitaries linked to the counterinsurgency plan in the Pacific region of Nariño created previously by HH.

We have said all of the above at the time, but it was said that they were lies or inventions of the ELN, now it appears that HH was identified since 2019 as a narco, but they let him continue operating, how nice!, the gringos knew, or rather, the DEA. Doesn’t the DEA coordinate and guide actions together with the Colombian military and police? Of course.

The three leaders of the HH Gang were “Trojan horses” within the ELN, sent by the DEA and Colombian intelligence to carry out drug trafficking operations, to then pass them off as ELN policy, while also carrying out intelligence operations to assassinate ELN commanders, in short: “multipurpose agents”, like the Dolorán which serves for everything.

And now what next, will he be extradited and sentenced to prison in the United States? No, not at all. The protocols for this type of agent is to take him out of the “hot area”, to cool him down; then, he will have his identity changed to circulate in other DEA intelligence operations.

All the current processes of “peace negotiation” of the Government are carried out with traquetos, narcos and paramilitaries, therefore, it is no coincidence that the President insistently wants to defame the ELN to convince half the world, through lies, that the ELN is also committed to drug trafficking; but no one has been able to show any proof, they are only lies because the ELN has nothing to do with that business.

In the end, the peace policy of this government became a tangled process with drug trafficking and paramilitary gangs. Therefore, the ELN will not be able to participate in that design, another vision and another spirit is needed. The Colombian people and the nation, as well as the peoples of the world, can be certain that the ELN is an authentically revolutionary organization, committed to peace with transformations for the good of society. We will continue to wait for a better opportunity to build peace.

Source: https://insurgenciaurbana-eln.net/la-dea-enfriando-agentes/

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Temuco Court Ratifies Acquittal of 17 Mapuche Political Prisoners

The court ruled out malice, charged lack of evidence and reaffirmed that the conflict in the Angol prison was exaggerated: a new defeat for the set-up and criminalization of the Mapuche people.

The Court of Appeals of Temuco rejected on Tuesday the appeals for nullity filed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office and Gendarmerie of Chile, confirming the sentence handed down on February 7 by the Oral Criminal Court of Angol, which acquitted 17 Mapuche community members accused of the crime of aggravated kidnapping to the detriment of Gendarmerie personnel.

The ruling, which represents a new setback for the attempts at judicial criminalization against the Mapuche communities, ratifies the innocence of the community members, dismissing an unsubstantiated accusation that tried to transform a prison conflict into a criminal case of high political and media impact.

A disproportionate accusation

The events date back to May 2023, when a group of Mapuche prisoners from the communal module in the Angol prison were accused of having held gendarmes against their will who were trying to carry out a procedure to register visits. The prosecution argued that this alleged “retention” constituted a crime of aggravated kidnapping, a serious criminal offense, which carries high penalties.

From the outset, relatives and organizations denounced that it was a new attempt at judicial set-up, instrumentalized to deepen the criminalization of the Mapuche people in Wallmapu, in a context of permanent militarization and media stigmatization.

The ruling that dismantles the story

In its ruling (role 234-2025), the Third Chamber of the Court of Appeals of Temuco ruled out that the court of first instance had committed errors of law or had improperly evaluated the evidence.

“Having examined the judgment under appeal, this Court can find that (…) the Public Prosecutor’s Office could not determine the facts for which the defendants were accused,” the resolution states.

In addition, the appellate court emphasized that neither intent nor convergence of wills, essential elements to configure a kidnapping, were proven. On the contrary, it was found that the community members had no possibility of leaving the module, so the fact should never have been prosecuted.

Political prisoners and delayed justice

The 17 Mapuche people acquitted are: Juan Ignacio Cortés Penchulef, Simón Alejandro Huenchullán Millanao, Pedro Sebastián Palacios Cañuta, Juan Patricio Queipul Millanao, Jorge Froilán Palacios Cañuta, Ismael Elías Fritz Ñancul, Anthoni Luciano Torres Toro, Alejandro Andrés Liguén Venegas, Boris Mariano Llanca Nahuelpi, Joaquín Wenulef Huenchullán Queipul, Fabián Alejandro Llanca Nahuelpi, Hanthu Lemunthu Llanca Quidel, Miguel Ángel Torres Toro, Freddy Jonathan Marileo Marileo, Sergio Isaías Huentecol Melinao, Joaquín Ismael Millanao Queipul and Máximo Iván Queipul Huenchullán.

Of them, Sergio Huentecol was the only one convicted, but only for the crime of mistreatment of the gendarme, with a sentence of 61 days in prison.

The rest were acquitted of all charges, reaffirming that the core of the indictment — the alleged kidnapping — was a failed attempt to fabricate culprits.

The political and media background

As happened in other emblematic cases, such as that of the Tralcal cousins or Operation Hurricane, this case was massively publicized prior to the trial, promoted by right-wing parliamentarians and institutional spokespersons.

An attempt was made to install the image of a violent and radical group, without any evidence to support that narrative. The trial, however, once again highlighted how the judicial system is used as a tool for preventive punishment against indigenous peoples, through the use of prolonged pretrial detention, long processes, and oversized accusations.

A reflection from the defense

Asked about it, lawyer Javier Pineda Olcay, defender of several of the acquitted community members, reflected on the impact of this ruling:

“This sentence is important, because the Mapuche people face a process of permanent criminalization, and this ruling is an oasis in the desert. In this case, Gendarmerie personnel – with media support from right-wing parliamentarians in the area – tried to pass off a daily prison conflict as an attempted kidnapping, which was completely absurd. Fortunately, the court applied the law and decreed the acquittal. However, a greater challenge remains: that the courts always act in accordance with the law and do not continue to convict community members just because they are Mapuche.”

Source: https://www.elciudadano.com/chile/absolucion-presos-politicos-mapuche-corte-temuco/04/16/

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