Raúl Benoit/ Matanza de Tacueyó 1985. Archivos sin editar para que usted lo juzgue. Cauca, Colombia.
Raul Benoit
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A truth or a lie told by the insurgents or paramilitaries? Was it the beginning of the self-defense groups?
The 25-year-old journalist Raúl Benoit was assigned to cover a story for the newspaper El País in Cali, Colombia. Although Benoit was the coordinator of the "Young People" page, one of the newspaper's youth-oriented sections, the deputy editor, Jorge Arturo Sanclemente, assigned him to cover the story because he had seen the reports on the Colombian television news program Promec and Benoit was available in the newsroom that day. The deputy editor introduced him to a suspected guerrilla fighter, and the next day several journalists, whom Raúl Benoit didn't know, went to Tacueyó, a small town in the department of Cauca, unaware that they were about to uncover a horrifying and unprecedented crime story.
At that time, in 1985, there was a subversive group called the "Ricardo Franco Front," which claimed to be dissidents of the "Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia" (FARC). The FARC denied that they belonged to that guerrilla group. Years later, Raúl Benoit discovered that the armed men were paramilitaries or self-defense forces working for the Army's Counterintelligence.
The leader of the "Ricardo Franco Front" was alias Javier Delgado, whom Raúl Benoit saw, years after the interview, entering a military barracks in Bogotá.
"The Tacueyó Massacre" was one of the most atrocious crimes of the violence in Colombia. More than 264 guerrillas were killed. It occurred in December 1985 in the Department of Cauca, perpetrated by these paramilitaries.
Raúl Benoit never revealed all the material because he suspected it was a deception by the army and always kept it abroad as proof of the Colombian Armed Forces' deception.
Today, 37 years later, he presents the interviews and the uncensored video so you can judge for yourself.
The perpetrators were alias Javier Delgado, whose real name was José Fedor Rey, and Hernando Pizarro Leongómez, both murdered in murky circumstances.
Pizarro was the brother of Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, the commander of the M-19, with whom he had no connection.
In the book "Forbidden to Tell the Whole Truth," Raúl Benoit tells this story. You can find it on Amazon.com.
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Soldado profesional....
Coronel......
Con esas edades.......
Cómo se nota que están siendo obligados a decir estás barbaridades.
¿Coronel en 5 años?
Raúl Benoit/ Matanza de Tacueyó 1985. Archivos sin editar para que usted lo juzgue. Cauca, Colombia.
Raul Benoit
1,144,130 views
#TravelingToThePast
A truth or a lie told by the insurgents or paramilitaries? Was it the beginning of the self-defense groups?
The 25-year-old journalist Raúl Benoit was assigned to cover a story for the newspaper El País in Cali, Colombia. Although Benoit was the coordinator of the "Young People" page, one of the newspaper's youth-oriented sections, the deputy editor, Jorge Arturo Sanclemente, assigned him to cover the story because he had seen the reports on the Colombian television news program Promec and Benoit was available in the newsroom that day. The deputy editor introduced him to a suspected guerrilla fighter, and the next day several journalists, whom Raúl Benoit didn't know, went to Tacueyó, a small town in the department of Cauca, unaware that they were about to uncover a horrifying and unprecedented crime story.
At that time, in 1985, there was a subversive group called the "Ricardo Franco Front," which claimed to be dissidents of the "Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia" (FARC). The FARC denied that they belonged to that guerrilla group. Years later, Raúl Benoit discovered that the armed men were paramilitaries or self-defense forces working for the Army's Counterintelligence.
The leader of the "Ricardo Franco Front" was alias Javier Delgado, whom Raúl Benoit saw, years after the interview, entering a military barracks in Bogotá.
"The Tacueyó Massacre" was one of the most atrocious crimes of the violence in Colombia. More than 264 guerrillas were killed. It occurred in December 1985 in the Department of Cauca, perpetrated by these paramilitaries.
Raúl Benoit never revealed all the material because he suspected it was a deception by the army and always kept it abroad as proof of the Colombian Armed Forces' deception.
Today, 37 years later, he presents the interviews and the uncensored video so you can judge for yourself.
The perpetrators were alias Javier Delgado, whose real name was José Fedor Rey, and Hernando Pizarro Leongómez, both murdered in murky circumstances.
Pizarro was the brother of Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, the commander of the M-19, with whom he had no connection.
In the book "Forbidden to Tell the Whole Truth," Raúl Benoit tells this story. You can find it on Amazon.com.