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Cristina Lombana, the village idiot of Colombia's Supreme Court?
by Adriaan Alsema June 10, 2020
The seemingly endless absurdities of magistrate Cristina Lombana are increasingly becoming an embarrassment for Colombia’s Supreme Court.
Lombana has been a problem ever since President Ivan Duque appointed the former army major in 2018, but seems to have reached the point where she may be best described as the high court’s own village idiot.
On Tuesday alone, newspaper El Tiempo reported that she was scolded by colleagues for meeting with military commanders while formally investigating them, and two senators accused her of going on witch hunts that seemed to be bordering on insanity.
Lombana’s alleged investigation binges
Senator Armando Benedetti (U Party) said he would ask Congress to remove the magistrate after she had ordered to investigate at least 300 of his acquaintances for no apparent reason.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/cristina-lombana-the-village-idiot-of-colombias-supreme-court/