Why Would Colombia’s Top Commander Try to Intercept my Communications?

José Miguel Vivanco on Revelations of Surveillance from Colombia's Top Commander On April 14, the Colombian magazine Semana ran a damning story about a group of senior military officers who it said were involved in corruption and illicit surveillance activities. It indicated that General Juan Pablo Rodríguez Barragán, the country’s then-top commander and now ambassador to South Korea, did not like my insistence on justice for killings of innocent people by the army during its long battle against rebel groups. So in 2017, Semana said, the general apparently asked other officers to establish cyber…

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