Between 4 and 21 February the Colombian public was shaken by three successive revelations in the media: that a covert army electronic surveillance centre had been illegally hacking into the communications of government negotiators in the Havana peace talks with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (
Farc), that hacked communications had uncovered corrupt dealing by high-ranking military officers, and that President Juan Manuel Santos’s email messages, personal and with government officials, had been hacked. A number of generals were either relieved of their posts or ordered into retirement, but it is not yet clear who was behind these developments.End of preview - This article contains approximately 1281 words.
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