The 'former prosecutor' Alejandro Ordóñez assured that he beat Piedad Córdoba in judicial proceedings for libel

Alejandro Ordóñez, current ambassador of Colombia to the Organization of American States (OAS), posted on his official Twitter account on Monday that the libel complaint filed against him by Piedad Córdoba, now a senator elected by the Historical Pact, was dismissed.

The process is old and began in 2010, when Ordóñez was serving as Attorney General of the Nation, a position that allowed him to dismiss and disqualify the congresswoman from holding public office for 18 years, claiming that the former senator collaborated and promoted the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

Although the Council of State withdrew the disability that weighed on the former senator in 2016, the official again attacked, this time verbally, noting in the Colombian media that “the Attorney General's Office was certain that Córdoba was alias 'Teodora Bolívar' and maintained a relationship with the guerrilla organization FARC ”. Comments that in turn triggered the demand from Antioquia politics, who pointed out that everything was an act of racism and machismo.

However, Ordóñez published that the complaint was filed by the accusing body as he did not have the necessary judicial support to hold him criminally responsible.

“The Prosecutor's Office has just ordered the filing of this investigation, since there were no “factual reasons or circumstances that would allow its characterization as a crime”, trino, along with a photo of the document that the investigating body would have issued.

The official reiterated his statement against Córdoba and recalled that at the time the Public Prosecutor's Office provided the necessary evidentiary material that led to the dismissal and inability of the congresswoman.

“There is evidence to singing. The Attorney General's Office is absolutely certain that she is 'Teodora Bolívar' and that she has a relationship with the FARC,” said Ordóñez.

The official added that according to what the accusator said, the complaint of the senator-elect did not have the necessary elements to be legally supported.

“The content of my interviews: “It states a legal position, based on the evidence and evidence assessed by the prosecutor in the disciplinary proceedings against the complainant,” Ordóñez quoted from the Prosecutor's document.

He also stressed that in the investigating body they made a list of the evidence against the now elected senator.

“These evidences were: “Procedural pieces of action in the Supreme Court, information obtained in Operation Phoenix, practice of affidavits of infiltrators, records of interceptions of members of the insurgent group and news of events by the senator,” he added.

Ordoñez finally urged that the judicial authorities revisit the congresswoman's alleged alliance with the extinct subversive group.

“Faced with this decision of the Prosecutor's Office and in the face of recent complaints and new testimonies, it is necessary for justice to determine the exact extent of relations between Mrs. Piedad Córdoba and the FARC guerrilla,” the former prosecutor concluded in his trills.

This apparent cessation of the libel trial against Ordóñez comes just as presidential debate organized by the newspaper El Tiempo in partnership with Semana Magazine, presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt reiterated her claim against the senator-elect of supposedly delaying her release when she was kidnapped by the FARC.

Accusation that was answered by Córdoba via Twitter: “Candidate, why didn't you take the evidence to the Supreme Court when you were summoned? I demand a public debate on peace and unilateral liberations. Say time and place I didn't do politics, don't you do it with me! Respect me, you ungrateful coward!”

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