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Defend Colombia's Peace! No extradition of Jesús Santrich!

Send a letter to the White House demanding that it withdraw its request to the Colombian government for the extradition of Seuxis Paucias Hernández Solarte, better known as Jesús Santrich; and that the DEA drop its case against him. Santrich is a former insurgent who helped negotiate a peace accord to end more than five decades of Colombian civil war. The case has been fraught with irregularities and violations of Colombian sovereignty. The evidence is not credible. What the extradition is really about is undoing Colombia's peace accord and one of its most central components: a general amnesty for combatants on all sides, with still-prosecutable war crimes and crimes against humanity, truth telling, matters concerning political prisoners and prisoners of war, and extradition requests under the authority of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP). The Trump administration has been leading attacks against the JEP. The policy of extradition of ex-combatants to the US would in effect nullify foundational aspects of the peace accord.

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Subject: Withdraw extradition request for Jesús Santrich - Stop the assaults on Colombia's peace!

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I am writing to demand that the United States government withdraw its request to the Colombian government for the extradition of Seuxis Paucias Hernández Solarte also known as Jesús Santrich; that the DEA drop its case altogether against him; and that the White House and State Department cease its interference in the internal affairs of Colombia to pressure for an end to the JEP (Special Peace Jurisdiction). The JEP is one of the key components of the agreement to end more than 52 years of civil war between the government and the FARC-EP (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army). <br> <br>There is no concrete evidence linking Hernández Solarte with narco-trafficking, just the testimony of paid informants and DEA agents. No audio or video evidence presented so far has included any mention of cocaine or other narcotic substances. Some of the allegations against Hernández Solarte allege him to have been in places for meetings when he was verified to have been in other parts of the country. This is not a credible case, but a cynical strategy that profoundly harms Colombia’s peace process. The US government should support Colombia’s Peace Accord, not undermine it.

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