The moment that journalist was telling him about was the operation against Raúl Reyes in 2008, which after a bombing ended the life of the guerrilla leader and the seizure of a couple of computers that would have contained Reyes’ communications. Among them, some messages that he would have exchanged with a certain “Teodora Bolívar” about the inadvisability of freeing Ingrid Betancourt or revealing evidence of her survival.
“A conversation between Teodora Bolívar and Raúl Reyes, in which she is basically telling Raúl Reyes: ‘look, Ingrid Betancourt’s proof of life, we don’t have to take it out. But Nor should we release her because she is sick, because in reality Íngrid Betancourt has always been skinny‘”, he asserts.
Although it is national knowledge that said material was not admitted as evidence against Piedad Córdoba due to alleged failures in the chain of custody, Ingrid Betancourt assures that she was able to verify the veracity and intention of what happened after the delivery of the testimonies of Andrés Vásquezformer advisor to Piedad Córdoba, to the Supreme Court of Justice.
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“He tells me and also tells it before the Court how For Piedad, the issue of the liberation of the kidnapped becomes an instrument to take advantage. That is to say, each release had a particular objective (…) Piedad Córdoba has done what is necessary to ensure that I am not included in that group, thinking that she wanted to reserve my release as a trophy that could leverage her presidential ambitions, she “I was going to run for president,” says Ingrid Betancourt.
The former presidential candidate and director of Verde Oxígeno points out that, after being released, on some occasion she met Piedad Córdoba before knowing everything and she would have shown a rude attitude towards her. Years later, Andrés Vásquez told her that “for her, her release was a very, very strong blow, which she saw as something that affected her personally.”