FARC Santrich transferred to prison again

The former guerrilla commander is the victim of a judiciary set up

Fifty days after he arrested him, Colombian Nation Attorney Nestor Humberto Martinez, with the complicity of the Governemnt, has ordered the transferred of FARC Jesus Santrich to  prison.

Former FARC commander and now one of the executives of the FARC party, Santrich had been arrested on 9 April as a result of a conspiracy and the US have asked for him to be extradite on drug-related charges. 

After an hunger strike of over a month, Santrich won a legal battle and was transferred from La Picota jail in Bogotá to hospital and from there to a church institution. 
Now, he has been once again transferred to La Picota in a clear provocative move by the Nation Attorney.

FARC former commander Seuxis Paucis Hernández Solarte, known as Jesús Santrich, had gone on hunger strike saying in a message that he was “willing to bring the protest to its extreme consequences as I would not accept to be extradited to a US prison”. 
Santrich reiterated that he was framed. 

According to the statement of the Attorney General, the arrest was in compliance with an international order issued through an Interpol red notice, for the purpose of extradition, for alleged drug-related events that allegedly occurred after the signing of the Peace Agreement (24 November 2016). 

In reality the operation smells of a set up and a solidarity campaign has been going on since the popular FARC member was detained in his house. 

This detention had dealt a heavy blow to the already fragile peace process. While the FARC has been complying with all aspects of the agreement falling upon it, the same cannot be said of the Colombian government, which appears to have slowed down and delayed the compliance of the agreement to suit its own pace. 

Some hope has been restored after the first turn of the Presidential elections, as the centre-left candidate, Gustavo Petro will contest the second turn, scheduled for 17 June. 

Saturday three more social leaders have been killed, confirming that violence has yet to be defeated in Colombia and that the road to peace is still long.