Colombia: Andrés Sepúlveda, hacker

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Colombia: Andrés Sepúlveda, hacker

Interesting article on How to Hack an Election: Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections throughout Latin America for almost a decade. He tells his story for the first time.

 

Three days after arriving at Bogotá’s La Picota prison, he went to the dentist and was ambushed by men with knives and razors, but was saved by guards. A week later, guards woke him and rushed him from his cell, saying they had heard about a plot to shoot him with a silenced pistol as he slept. After national police intercepted phone calls revealing yet another plot, he’s now in solitary confinement at a maximum-security facility in a rundown area of central Bogotá. He sleeps with a bulletproof blanket and vest at his bedside, behind bombproof doors. Guards check on him every hour. As part of his plea deal, he says, he’s turned government witness, helping investigators assess possible cases against the former candidate, Zuluaga, and his strategist, Hoyos. Authorities issued an indictment for the arrest of Hoyos, but according to Colombian press reports he’s fled to Miami.

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May 23, 2016 By Fausta 2 Comments

Colombia: Bad news for the whole hemisphere

A regular pattern in Latin America: Leader comes to power through elections, changes the country’s Constitution (which they regard as a pliable ‘living’ thing) to consolidate power around themselves, thereby screwing up the country.

 

For a brief moment, I hoped Colombia would prove to be an exception.

 

Man, was I wrong!

 

Mary O’Grady writes about Santos’s Power Grab in the Name of Peace. The Colombian leader, using the Hugo Chávez playbook, wants a constitutional rewrite(emphasis added),

 

Hugo Chávez destroyed political pluralism in Venezuela by consolidating power in the executive. Now Colombia’s PresidentJuan Manuel Santos wants to copy the Bolivarian strongman. He’s asking Congress for the power to rule by decree for six months and for a blank check to amend the constitution in ways he has not spelled out. Since Mr. Santos’s Liberal Party controls Congress, he is expected to prevail. http://faustasblog.com/2016/05/colombia-bad-news-for-the-whole-hemisphere/