Rodrigo Tovar Pupo
Rodrigo Tovar Pupo , fighting name Jorge 40 and Jorge Cuarenta (* Valledupar ) were leaders of the northern bloc of the paramilitary Auto Defense Unidas de Colombia (AUC). After 12 years of armed conflict, he demobilized his 2,000-strong force on March 10, 2006 in La Mensa, Cesar .
A notebook belonging to Tovar contained information on 550 murders and led to the 2006 Paragate ; a political scandal in which several congressmen were charged with corruption.
The north block dominated the departments of Cesar, La Guajira , Magdalena , Atlántico and parts of Santander and Norte de Santander . Members of the group, which at times comprised 4,500 people, were cattle breeders, farmers, members of the FENALCE ( Federación Nacional de Cultivadores de Cereales , grain growers) and FEDEARROZ ( Federacion Nacional de Arroceros , rice growers) as well as a representative of the authorities.
“Just hearing his name created fear in us,” said a member of the indigenous Kankuamos in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta coastal mountains , who accuse him of killing over 100 people from their tribe in 2004. Tovar is also accused of blackmailing the Aseguradoras del Régimen Subsidiado de Salud (ARS, health care insurance) in many cities of the coastal départamentos and of maintaining a network of drug traffickers in the coastal mountains and in La Guajira. The US government therefore pushed for extradition.
Tovar is accused of ordering the killing of 60 Wayúu and Wiwa indigenous people in La Guajira and Magdalena in 2004 and of being involved in the murder of 21 people in Aracataca .
The OAS accuses its paramilitaries of a massacre on May 4th / 5th. Working together with local government troops in Curumaní (Departamento Cesar) in December 2005, killing eight people. They are said to have been informants of the guerrilla army ELN .
In May 2011 Rodrigo Tovar Pupo was sentenced to 26 years in prison by the Supreme Court for the murder of Alfredo Correa de Andréis . In September , Jorge Noguera Cotes , the then head of the domestic intelligence service Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS), was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the same murder.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.fac.mil.co/index.php?idcategoria=8359
- ↑ Jürgen Vogt: Ex-head of the secret service has to go to jail. In: the daily newspaper . September 15, 2011, accessed September 16, 2011 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tovar Pupo, Rodrigo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jorge 40, Jorge Cuarenta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Colombian paramilitary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Valledupar , Colombia |