Paranoid Colombia: even Duque's former chief of staff target of military spying

by Adriaan Alsema May 2, 2020

Colombia’s military used US resources to spy on American journalists, local NGO’s and politicians, and even President Ivan Duque‘s former chief of staff, according to weekly Semana.

Weekly Semana on Friday revealed evidence that among the 130 targets of the illegal spying operations were journalists of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, leading opposition senators, military commanders and even Jorge Mario Eastman, who resigned as Duque’s chief of staff last year.

The information about the illegal spying practices was sent to Duque’s far-right Democratic Center (CD) party, Semana had already revealed in January.

“This is going to be a mess”

While the illegal spying practices were already known, the extent of the military’s criminal activity in alleged collusion with the ruling party was not.

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https://colombiareports.com/paranoid-colombia-even-duques-former-chief-of-staff-target-of-military-spying/