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    The letter expresses concern over statements by Colombian citizen Ivan Cepeda to revoke the American visas of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and his lawyer. The letter claims that according to a former paramilitary in a U.S. prison, Cepeda visited and asked him to falsely testify against Uribe in exchange for political asylum for his family. The letter rejects Cepeda's intentions and expresses concern that this may be a pattern of criminal behavior committed on U.S. territory.

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    The letter expresses concern over statements by Colombian citizen Ivan Cepeda to revoke the American visas of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and his lawyer. The letter claims that according to a former paramilitary in a U.S. prison, Cepeda visited and asked him to falsely testify against Uribe in exchange for political asylum for his family. The letter rejects Cepeda's intentions and expresses concern that this may be a pattern of criminal behavior committed on U.S. territory.

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    Bogota D.C.

    , October 8th, 2020

    Honorable,
    PHILIP S. GOLDBERG
    Ambassador of the United States in Colombia
    United States Embassy
    Calle 24 Bis No. 48-50
    Bogotá D.C, Colombia

    I have the pleasure to adress your office, following the declarations of the Colombian
    citizen Ivan Cepeda, in which he stated "I also announce that I will take measures to revoke
    the American visas of Mr. Uribe and Cadena", referring to the former President Alvaro Uribe
    and his lawyer, against whom he is conducting criminal proceedings in Colombia.

    In my position as attorneys of former President Alvaro Uribe, we reject these


    statements, to the extent that it has not been the former president who has incurred in criminal
    activities, but Ivan Cepeda himself. In fact, it was he who had meetings, in United States
    prisons, with former paramilitaries, among them Juan Carlos Sierra Ramirez, aka "Tuso
    Sierra," who in a communication to the Colombian Supreme Court of Justice stated that
    "While being held in the Federal prison of Washington Correctional Treament Facility, I
    received the official visit of Mr. IVAN CEPEDA (...) who asked me to make a statement
    against Senator ALVARO URIBE VELEZ, because of his alleged links with illegal groups.
    In exchange for my statement, they committed themselves to manage and obtain political
    asylum for my family in Switzerland". (Emphasis added) (unofficial translation) (See Annex
    1).

    For this reason, we express our concern regarding the statements made by citizen Iván
    Cepeda and categorically reject his intention to initiate attempts to have the visas of former
    President Uribe and his lawyer revoked, knowing that it was he who incurred in criminal
    activities in the United States by seeking to influence a person to give false testimony in a
    judicial proceeding.

    This situation, which, according to the media, has been repeated with other people
    who were extradited to the United States of America and who, apparently, like Mr. Sierra
    Ramirez, were contacted in U.S. detention centers with the sole purpose of having them
    allegedly give false testimony to involve former President Uribe Velez, exposes what would
    be a systematic pattern of alleged criminal behavior committed on U.S. territory
    I take this opportunity to present to the honorable Ambassador the assurances of my
    highest and most distinguished consideration,

    Cordially,

    Víctor Mosquera Marin


    Lawyer, Doctor of Research in
    International Public Law, Master in
    International Protection of Human Rights
    Sapienza Universita di Roma - Italy
    Specialist in Constitutional and
    Administrative Law Universidad Nuestra
    Señora del Rosario - Colombia

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