According to the Head of State, the support expressed by the leaders of the Coordinadora Continental Bolivariana (Bolivarian Continental Coordination) to the Farc, from Venezuela, shows complicity with terrorism: “that is the standardization of several crimes, one of them, consent to commit murder; is to confess complicity with those who commit murder, with those who kidnap, with those who participate in drug trafficking activities”.  Considering that, the President asked the law to investigate that kind of behaviors, even for people who are in foreign countries.

Bogota, Dec 10 (SP). The National Government asked the General Attorney’s Office to investigate and to take to court the leaders of the Coordinadora Continental Bolivariana, who made public their support to Farc yesterday, as considering them as accomplices of terrorism, taking into account that in Colombia that behavior is standardized as conspiracy to commit a crime.
“We have asked our General Attorney’s Office that those people, leaders of that parties, who declared themselves as accomplices of the Farc narco-terrorist group yesterday, must be taken to court in Colombia and that Colombia must bring them to the law so they can answer for that crime which is conspiracy to commit crime”, President Álvaro Uribe said.

At the presentation of the book ‘Colombia: un país que no tiene excusa’ (Colombia: a country with no excuses), written by Senator Ricardo Arias Mora, the Head of State considered that it is very important for the country to appeal its legal tradition to prevent complicity with terrorism using the name of political ideas.

“One thing is to be tolerant with someone else’s ideas, and another different thing is to be accomplices with criminals. For a country with no excuses, there can not be complicity with criminals”, he added.

Yesterday, the Coordinadora Continental Bolivariana, gathered in Venezuela, publicly recognized the Farc, and praised its commanders aka ‘Alfonso Cano’ and ‘Manuel Marulanda’, giving the level of members of the ‘collective presidency’ of that political organization.

“That decisions took yesterday in Venezuela, is a decision of complicity with terrorism. Is the standardization of several crimes, one of them, consent to commit murder; is to confess complicity with those who commit murder, with those who kidnap, with those who participate in drug trafficking activities”, the Colombian President stated.

Uribe Vélez said that considering that complicity with crime, besides asking actions from the Colombian General Attorney’s Office, there would also be an announcement to international institutions.

“Those people, who proceeded that way with Farc, even if they are in foreign countries, should be prosecuted for several crimes that are standardized; one of them, consent. They are partners in criminal activities, just that. In the Colombian Law, that is considered as conspiracy to commit crime and it is standardized as a crime. The Government will proceed in that direction”, President Uribe expressed.

Just before that, the Head of State declared, in a radio station interview with Cadena Melodía that the country must learn the difference between tolerance to other’s ideas and complicity with crime.

“You can not incite to complicity with crime in the name of tolerance with other’s ideas. Crime must be rejected, and other’s ideas must be respected”, he pointed out.