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Colombia's intelligence agency assassinated presidential candidate: prosecution
Fatal victim falsely accused of assassination for more than 34 years
by Adriaan Alsema August 31, 2023
Three agents of Colombia’s now-defunct intelligence agency DAS carried out the assassination of a socialist candidate in the presidential elections of 1990.
The March 3 1989 attack inside Bogota’s El Dorado airport killed candidate Jose Antequera and a bystander, and injured seven others, including former President Ernesto Samper.
The DAS officials who allegedly carried out the attack were part of Antequera’s security detail.
Until Thursday, authorities claimed that the assassination was carried out by the man who was killed by the politician’s bodyguards during the attack.
The prosecution now claims that the 21-year-old Luis Fernando Mona did not fire the MAC-10 submachine gun that killed Antequera, but was one of the victims.
The alleged conspiracy
According to the prosecution, the three former DAS agents were part of a larger assassination squad that carried out the El Dorado terrorist attack.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-intelligence-agency-assassinated-presidential-candidate-prosecution/