Talk:Fabio Valencia Cossio

Alleged links with 'Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia'

Is it worth of mention the scandal of Valencia's alleged exchange of letters with Ramón Isaza in 1998? Ramón Isaza was a member of the AUC and could have helped Valencia to gather votes for his campaing to the senate. --Forich (talk) 02:40, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

It would be worth mentioning if this, as you put it, "alleged exchange", had caused his resignation from something, or his inability to do something, or had led to his arrest, death, or something of that nature. In this case it didn't, and because no court has changed that "alleged" into a "confirmed" exchange, it is just gossip at this point. From what I could gather online, because I'm not familiar with this case nor with this politician in particular, the letter was sent from Isaza to Valencia, not the other way around, so it could be Isaza's way of messing with the system for all we know, until a court says otherwise. Furthermore, even if it were worth mentioning, this article is not developed enough as to even have any information as to his political career in the 90's (when this alleged letter was sent) so to have this unproven information in his article could be considered a deviation from a neutral point of view.mijotoba (talk) 14:31, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Also on further investigation I found out that Fabio Valencia never did send any letters to Isaza, only that two other people, vaguely associated with him at the time had talked to Isaza asking him for support for Valencia, but those people could've very well asked for his support because they themselves could've benefited from Valencia getting elected, Valencia was either too astute to be incriminated or completely unaware of what these two were up to. In any case Isaza refused to help Valencia, so any intentions were never materialized so its moot point. So this "scandal" is more gossip than anything, although granted, scandalous in the eyes of the media, and scandalous were it to be proved true.mijotoba (talk) 16:26, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your input on this, Mijotoba. Let's agree on expanding the article first, and when the time comes to have a detailed explanation of his political career in the 90s, a brief and neutral mention of both sides of the Isaza investigation should be included.--Forich (talk) 17:15, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

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