The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduroregretted this Saturday the death of his “dear friend” the Colombian senator Piedad Córdobawhom he remembers as a “tireless warrior and one of the bravest women” he has ever known.
Córdoba, of the ruling Historical Pact, died this Saturday in Medellín, Colombiaat 68 years of age.
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“Dear friend Piedad, how many battles you had to face and fight for your country. “Tireless warrior and one of the bravest women I have ever met, a great revolutionary, fighter, fervent defender of human rights and the peace of the people,” wrote Maduro in X.
He noted that, despite “facing great threats,” the senator “His morale and strength to overcome any difficulty prevailed.”
“From Venezuela, the Bolivarian land that he loved so much, I send my deepest condolences to his family and the Colombian people. Your name, your idea and your great legacy of struggle transcend today to the highest echelon of those of us who follow this path of transformation of our people. Mercy lives, the fight continues! added the president.
Several officials of the Venezuelan Government have also spoken out about the death of the senator, including the Minister of Penitentiary Service, Celsa Bautistaand that of Work, Francisco Torrealba, who agreed that she was “a tireless fighter.”
For his part, the president of the National Assembly (AN, Parliament), the Chavista Jorge Rodriguezsaid, also in
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In the first decade of this century, Córdoba, then a senator for the Colombian Liberal Party, served as a mediator, along with the then Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, for the release of several kidnapped by the FARC guerrilla.
Due to his left-wing activism, in 2010 the then attorney general of Colombia, Alejandro Ordóñez, dismissed her and disqualified her from holding public office for 18 years because she had allegedly “promoted and collaborated with the illegal group, FARC.”
The investigation began from the documents found on the computers of whoever was the number two of the FARC, Luis Edgar Deviaalias “Raúl Reyes”, who was killed in a bombing by the Colombian Army in Ecuador on March 1, 2008.
The politician, born in Medellín in 1955, was in the shadows for a few years, but after her sentence was annulled she returned to politics years later, responding to a call from Petro.
