This week, the media focused on how the judicial authorities authorized that 17,637 phones be tapped as part of the investigations into different cases during 2017 and 2018. The intense espionage activity, nevertheless, seems to have not been effective in
Servio Tulio Castaños Guzmán, executive vice president of the Fundación Institucionalidad y Justicia (FINJUS), protests the high number of tapings in a democratic country. He also expressed his concern that so many international criminals have been taking refuge in the country. “Many people who have committed crimes end up taking refuge here and I have always said that the intelligence agencies have to be more effective. The security forces of a nation are there to ensure that situations like these do not happen,” said Castaños Guzmán.
He criticized that known international capos have been operating businesses in the country. “I believe that the security systems of this country, especially the intelligence services, need to be revised,” he said.
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13 March 2019