Adam Isaacson, whose translation skills are far better than mine, has kindly provided a transcript of the Semana interview I mentioned yesterday, for the English-only crowd here.
What is rather interesting (and quite odd) is the flippant way that DefMin Santos reveals the information:
María Isabel Rueda: And where is “Tirofijo“?
Juan Manuel Santos: He must be in hell.M.I.R.: In which hell?
J.M.S: The one where dead criminals go.M.I.R.: Where “Tirofijo” is going…
J.M.S.: The information we have is that he is already gone.M.I.R.: What do you mean, “Tirofijo” died?
J.M.S.: That’s what a source who has never failed us tells us.
It continues to strike me as extremely odd that this was the way that the Colombian government decided to share this information, in an interview and done so in a way to at least make it sound like he wasn’t even going to mention it except that the reporter asked a question about Marulanda’s whereabouts.
