This investigation is a collaboration between Bellingcat and Colombian media outlet Cerosetenta. You possibly can learn Cerosetenta’s piece in Spanish right here.
A video posted on Feb. 26 exhibits a number of males portray over graffiti in Restrepo, a neighbourhood in Bogota, Colombia, and changing them with pictures of their very own: a emblem utilized by Colombian political candidate and businessman Jorge Rodriguez, who is without doubt one of the males proven within the footage.
“Right now we’re defending public house to cease producing hatred in future generations!” stated the caption posted on Instagram by Rodriguez, who unsuccessfully ran for workplace within the March 2026 congressional elections as a part of Centro Democratico, the nation’s largest right-wing social gathering.
However not less than one of many graffiti-ed items they painted over carried a message crucial of, moderately than selling, hate: “Creole Nazis won’t move” – utilizing a time period that refers to Nazi sympathisers in Latin America.
And though the faces of many of the males proven within the video had been pixelated, the tattoos seen on considered one of them have a number of similarities with a outstanding member of neo-Nazi group Lively Membership Bogota – a person often called Javier “Orlik” Ruiz, whom Rodriguez follows on Instagram and who “appreciated” the video.
In response to Bellingcat and Cerosetenta’s queries through Instagram, Rodriguez didn’t reply questions on his relationship with Lively Membership Bogota or the person we recognized as showing in his movies, however stated he was “not obligated to reply to any interview or request with no court docket order”. He additionally threatened authorized motion if we used his picture or identify on this investigation, saying that this could violate his rights to privateness, fame and information safety, in addition to the precise to his personal picture.
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Equally, Ruiz didn’t reply to questions that Bellingcat despatched through e-mail, together with on his function in Lively Membership Bogota, however responded to our question by threatening authorized motion if we used his identify, picture or background details about him with out his “prior, categorical and knowledgeable authorisation”. Ruiz stated in his e-mail that, amongst different issues, processing his private information with out authorisation may very well be thought-about a violation of private information underneath Colombian legislation.
After Bellingcat replied to each Rodriguez and Ruiz, noting that they didn’t reply our questions and alluring them once more to take action, Ruiz responded with one other authorized risk referencing information legal guidelines – once more with out answering any questions associated to this investigation.
Bellingcat and Cerosetenta have consulted authorized consultants in each the Netherlands, the place Bellingcat is headquartered, and in Colombia on the query of how privateness legal guidelines in each international locations are balanced towards the precise to freedom of expression. In gentle of (amongst different components) the general public curiosity on this data and the truth that each Rodriguez and Ruiz qualify as “public figures” (individuals who’ve, via their acts or their place, entered the general public enviornment), the reporting on this article and the editorial decisions made by Bellingcat are protected by the liberty of expression.
Each Rodriguez’s and Ruiz’s full responses are included on the finish of this text.
Lively Membership Bogota is the native department of the worldwide Lively Membership motion. It hosted celebrations of Adolf Hitler’s birthday at a Bogota group centre in 2025 and 2026. On the 2025 occasion, the group hosted a Nazi-inspired e-book burning. This yr, the group celebrated with Nazi swastika cupcakes, a swastika-emblazoned birthday cake and the screening of a 1940 Nazi propaganda movie.
Bellingcat and our Colombian companion Cerosetenta reached out a number of instances through e-mail and telephone to the president of the related Neighborhood Motion Board managing the group centre the place these occasions had been held, utilizing contact data listed in a doc by the native mayor’s workplace. As of publication, now we have not acquired a response to our emails, and calls to the president of the group centre have gone unanswered.
Lively Membership Bogota, which has had a web-based presence since early 2024, seems to be the one formally recognised South American chapter of the neo-Nazi community began within the US by white supremacist Robert Rundo. The worldwide motion, which Bellingcat has lined extensively, is understood for utilizing health, preventing and style to recruit younger males and boys into the far proper, normalise fascist concepts and put together them for bodily violence towards perceived enemies.
Lively Membership Bogota’s official Instagram account adopted simply over 60 accounts earlier this yr. Rodriguez’s public Instagram account was, and continues to be, considered one of them. In March this yr, Rodriguez additionally “appreciated” a March 2026 put up from the group that featured a flag for a neo-Nazi motion.
Whereas Rodriguez was unsuccessful in his bid for a seat in parliament, garnering simply 4,401 votes, he presents himself as a outstanding member of Centro Democratico and claims to have based the social gathering’s largest youth group.
He has appeared in photographs and occasions on his social media alongside notable figures from the social gathering, akin to former Vice Minister of Justice Rafael Nieto Loaiza, social gathering director Gabriel Vallejo, presidential candidate Paloma Valencia and the social gathering’s founder, Alvaro Uribe Velez.
Alexander Ritzmann, a senior advisor with the Counter-Extremism Mission (CEP), informed Bellingcat that an affiliation between Lively Membership Bogota and a political actor like Rodriguez must be taken severely.
Heidi Beirich, co-founder of International Mission Towards Hate and Extremism (GPAHE), stated that any form of legitimacy lent to an outwardly neo-Nazi group, like those who make up the Lively Membership motion, “units a harmful precedent”.
Bellingcat’s investigation into Lively Membership Bogota additionally means that the group has connections with the worldwide far-right, with allies and “brothers” from Brazil to Spain, in addition to obvious hyperlinks with Fight 18, a violent neo-Nazi community accused of being an “worldwide legal organisation” and terrorist group. There is no such thing as a proof to counsel that Rodriguez has any connections to those different teams.
Centro Democratico was the most important challenger to Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s left-wing coalition Pacto Historico within the March elections, securing 17 seats within the Senate, up from 13 in 2022, and a majority of 32 seats within the Home of Representatives, double the 16 it received within the earlier elections.
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In response to Bellingcat’s queries, Centro Democratico Nationwide Director Gabriel Vallejo stated the social gathering was unaware of any confirmed hyperlinks between Rodriguez and far-right, neo-Nazi, or extremist teams.
Vallejo stated that the Celebration’s candidates retain the precise to train their freedom of expression and outline their ideological affinities throughout the limits of the Structure and the legislation.
Nonetheless, Vallejo stated that Centro Democratico doesn’t help or endorse any sort of hyperlink with organisations or actions that incite hate speech, violence or the glorification of crime.
“The Celebration maintains a agency stance in defence of the Structure, the legislation, democratic establishments, and respect for human dignity, in addition to within the safety of the general public curiosity and elementary rights,” he stated. “On this regard, any conduct that contravenes these rules is opposite to the Celebration’s pointers and might be topic to the corresponding actions in accordance with the Statutes and relevant laws.”
Tattoo Identifications
In Rodriguez’s Feb. 26 video, the previous political candidate could be clearly seen. Nonetheless, a number of others had their identities obscured, with one explicit particular person being fully pixelated from head to toe in virtually each body he appeared in, even the place solely a part of his arm was seen.
However thanks to a couple frames the place elements of the person’s arms or palms are briefly unpixelated, or the place colouration exhibits via the pixelation, Bellingcat was capable of match the individual proven within the video to a outstanding Lively Membership Bogota member and potential chief – a person who goes by Javier or “Orlik” Ruiz – who Rodriguez follows on Instagram and vice versa.
Between April and Could 2024, the primary few weeks after Lively Membership Bogota’s Telegram channel was arrange, eight posts listed an writer who glided by “Orlik Ruiz”.
Bellingcat searched on-line for social media accounts and knowledge associated to “Orlik Ruiz” and rapidly discovered quite a few public social media accounts that seem to belong to the identical particular person, with posts displaying photographs of his face and tattoos. A number of of those accounts used the identify Javier Ruiz. These accounts included a YouTube account that includes 2022 video clips displaying Ruiz and different males at a capturing vary, holding what look like automated rifles.
In most of those social media accounts, Ruiz posted quite a few photographs exposing his face and, extra incessantly, his tattoos from a number of angles, permitting Bellingcat to verify that the identical particular person seems within the overwhelming majority of Lively Membership Bogota’s on-line content material.
Lively Membership Bogota’s Telegram channel listed an account with the identify “Javi” because the group’s most important contact. There have been greater than 30 posts on this account’s personal profile web page, and although the face of the individual proven within the photographs posted from this account was obscured, the matching tattoos in lots of of those posts all pointed to the identical individual.
Ruiz’s tattoos had a number of distinctive options that appeared throughout a number of photographs. The backs of each of his palms are tattooed as much as the bottom knuckles. He additionally has an arrow tattoo on his left center finger, pointing down in direction of the bottom knuckle, and a purple design that circles his left wrist.
These match a number of options of tattoos on the person’s left hand that may be made out regardless of the pixelation, together with what seems to be purple colouration on the person’s wrist, heavy darkish hand tattooing, and likewise discolouration on the left center finger, suggesting tattoos on that finger.
Whereas blurred footage alone isn’t sufficient to verify matching tattoos, a number of different considerably extra detailed and clearer comparisons may very well be made.
In a single body, a really related arrow to that seen in photographs of Ruiz seems on the left center finger of the person proven within the video.
As well as, there are gaps within the tattoos and a rounded form seen on his left arm which are constant in place with photographs of Ruiz’s tattoos.
There are additionally a number of frames within the video the place the person’s proper hand is seen. These unpixelated, though nonetheless blurry, frames present the person has heavy tattooing on their proper hand that types a curved form between their knuckles. That is according to the form of the tattoos on the precise hand of Lively Membership Bogota’s Ruiz as seen in photographs posted on the group’s Telegram channel and on social media.
One other body exhibits a small purple tattoo seen on the middle-right finger in addition to a element between the index finger and proper pinky. This matches with different, clearer pictures of Ruiz’s tattoos seen on his personal Instagram.
Moreover, in a number of frames of the video, the pixelated particular person’s upper-right arm is seen, displaying purple colouration that’s constant in dimension and form with pictures of Ruiz’s tattooed proper arm.
Selling Fascist Concepts within the Area
The primary signal we may discover on-line of Lively Membership Bogota’s look on the town’s neo-Nazi scene was in early 2024, when its official Telegram channel was created.
The official Lively Membership web site that Rundo, the American founding father of the Lively Membership motion, has brazenly promoted in a number of podcasts includes a map of “official” Lively Golf equipment around the globe. As of the time of publication, Lively Membership Bogota is the one one in South America on the map.
However social media posts from Lively Membership Bogota counsel that the Colombia-based group has been making an attempt to advertise the event of different Lively Golf equipment in Latin America, with blended outcomes.
In September 2025, Lively Membership Bogota promoted a brand new Lively Membership in Brazil, boasting that “our brothers … have additionally taken an enormous step ahead.”
This Brazilian Lively Membership Telegram channel not exists as of February 2026.
Additionally in September 2025, Lively Membership Bogota promoted the Telegram channel of a brand new Lively Membership in Argentina, which they known as “our Argentinian buddies”. This Telegram channel, just like the Brazilian Lively Membership Telegram channel, not exists as of February 2026.
In December 2025, Lively Membership Bogota promoted the Telegram channel of one other new Lively Membership based mostly in Mexico Metropolis, which the Colombian channel known as “our Mexican brothers, who’re becoming a member of this nice motion that seeks to reclaim our id and heritage”.
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Beirich, the co-founder of GPAHE, stated that Lively Golf equipment are a concerted effort to market the far proper to a brand new era of younger individuals.
“Lively Golf equipment can and do function a bridge between older generations of neo-Nazis and the present wave of youth partaking with the motion,” she stated.
“Teams just like the one in Bogota are hyper-local enterprises that additionally join its members to a transnational extremist community of different Lively Golf equipment and white supremacist teams that share an identical worldview,” she added.
Ritzmann, from CEP, additionally stated that the risk posed by the group mustn’t solely be measured by its dimension. “Even a small native chapter can operate as a recruitment hub, a coaching surroundings, and a bridge into wider transnational extremist networks,” he stated.
Worldwide Connections
Our identification of Ruiz additionally led to proof of hyperlinks between Lively Membership Bogota and worldwide neo-Nazi networks Blood & Honour and Fight 18.
In a Could 2024 picture posted on his public Telegram account, a person whose face is roofed by a fabric masks and additional obscured with a digital picture was pictured standing subsequent to 2 neo-Nazi musicians who had been in Bogota to carry out at a live performance that Ruiz had promoted on his Telegram account. One of many musicians is British neo-Nazi Ken McLellan, who has lengthy been related to Blood & Honour.
The tattoos on the decrease left leg and proper hand of the person whose face was obscured look like the identical as Ruiz’s – matching the form, color and place – based mostly on photographs publicly posted on Lively Membership Bogota’s Telegram channel.
Blood & Honour is a world neo-Nazi community based in the UK in 1987; McLellan and his band had been current at this founding assembly and nonetheless recurrently carry out at Blood & Honour-affiliated live shows. Blood & Honour’s affiliate group Fight 18, described because the “armed department” of Blood & Honour, was based in 1992.
Members and associates of Blood & Honour and Fight 18 have been accused of crimes together with possessing explosives and drug trafficking. People related to each teams have been convicted of crimes together with tried homicide, homicide and terrorism. Each teams have been designated terrorist organisations in Canada since 2019 and have been topic to monetary counter-terrorism sanctions within the United Kingdom since January 2025.
A Colombia-based neo-Nazi style retailer that sells t-shirts with Fight 18 symbolism and branding additionally lists Ruiz as the principle contact on its Telegram channel (Bellingcat isn’t naming the retailer to keep away from amplification).
On its WhatsApp Enterprise account, this retailer advertises neo-Nazi clothes and paraphernalia, together with content material with Fight 18’s identify, symbolism and branding, in addition to content material selling bands with documented hyperlinks to Fight 18. Lively Membership Bogota has additionally promoted this retailer by itself Telegram channel. After reaching out to Meta, the dad or mum firm of WhatsApp, a spokesperson informed Bellingcat that “this account breaks our phrases of service and now we have banned it”. As of publication, the WhatsApp Enterprise account has been blocked.
After a collection of arrests of alleged members in Spain in October 2023, Spanish authorities publicly referred to as Fight 18 an “worldwide legal organisation” and claimed the Spanish wing of the group has relations with Fight 18 members in South America.
Spanish media outlet El Periodico additional reported that this police operation towards Fight 18 in October 2023, in line with their sources, “was mounted to pursue organised crime and different associated offences, together with drug trafficking”.
Bellingcat established one other hyperlink between the 2 teams via one other particular person related to Lively Membership Bogota.
In a 2015 put up on considered one of Ruiz’s public Fb accounts, a person (in purple beneath) who on the time was a bassist with a neo-Nazi band that sang songs praising and selling Fight 18, is seen with a black tattoo on his left bicep.
Virtually a decade later, in January 2025, Lively Membership Bogota posted a video that featured a person with a tattoo that gave the impression to be in the identical form and placement.
The bassist’s identify was talked about in two posts by Juan de Dios Osuna Montanez, the alleged chief of Fight 18 in Spain, on Instagram in Could 2024.
Each posts featured a photograph of what Montanez described as “little items straight from Colombia,” with Montanez thanking an account underneath this particular person’s identify, calling him his “brother.” These posts occurred throughout the identical time interval throughout which Lively Membership Bogota posted content material from Catalonia, in northeastern Spain.
The photographs Montanez posted of the obvious items are practically an identical, with the one distinction being that the second picture is extra zoomed in than the primary. The picture exhibits a sticker with Lively Membership Bogota’s emblem and branding, a t-shirt studying “Blood & Honour Colombia Division,” a sticker that includes each Blood & Honour and Fight 18’s emblem, in addition to packages of sweet and low that Bellingcat was capable of determine as being from small Colombian manufacturers.
Montanez didn’t reply to Bellingcat’s request for remark through Instagram and Fb, however we had been blocked by his Instagram account after we reached out. We had been unable to seek out some other public contact data for Montanez.
Ritzmann of CEP stated that Lively Membership Bogota’s repeated show of the Fight 18 flag on its Telegram channel indicators identification with some of the explicitly militant neo-Nazi traditions in Europe.
He added that whereas some Lively Golf equipment keep away from overtly antisemitic references to keep away from scrutiny by legislation enforcement, cut back unfavorable media consideration and entice new recruits with out scary them away, Lively Membership Bogota “seems to sit down on the extra express fringe of the Lively Membership technique” with its open celebration of Hitler’s birthday and its antisemitic messaging.
“The community needs to look innocent sufficient to keep away from scrutiny, however radical sufficient to draw militants. Lively Membership Bogota is an instance of how that stability can shift towards overt neo-Nazi mobilisation whereas nonetheless remaining inside the broader transnational Lively Membership ecosystem,” he stated.
Full Response from Jorge Rodriguez to Bellingcat’s Queries
[April 24, 2026]
Translated to English
“In response to your questions, I want to inform you that I’m not obligated to reply to any interview or request with no court docket order. Due to this fact, I can’t reply to any interviews. Moreover, must you resolve to make use of my identify or picture, I want to state that I DO NOT AUTHORISE THE USE OF MY NAME, SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS OR ANY RELATED CONTENT.
Likewise, for those who use my picture or identify, it constitutes a violation of my elementary rights to privateness, fame, habeas information, and the precise to my very own picture, the latter of which has been repeatedly recognised and guarded by the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Courtroom.
The unauthorised use of my picture or identify could represent a punishable offence, and I might be authorised to provoke the corresponding authorized actions to revive my rights.
Sincerely,
Jorge Rodríguez”
In Spanish (Unique)
“De conformidad con sus preguntas, me permito indicarle que no estoy obligado a responder ninguna entrevista o requerimiento sin que medie orden judicial. Por lo anterior, no responderé ninguna entrevista, asimismo, en caso de que ustedes decidan utilizar mi nombre o imagen me permito indicar que NO AUTORIZO LA UTILIZACIÓN DE MI NOMBRE O IMAGEN, REDES SOCIALES Y DEMÁS.
De igual manera, si ustedes utilizan mi imagen o nombre es una transgresión de mis derechos fundamentales a la intimidad, al buen nombre, al habeas information y al derecho a la propia imagen, este último reconocido y protegido de manera reiterada por la jurisprudencia de la Corte Constitucional.
Incluso la utilización de imagen o nombre sin autorización puede constituir una conducta punible y estaré autorizado de iniciar las acciones legales correspondientes en aras del restablecimiento de mis derechos.
Cordialmente,
Jorge Rodríguez”
First Response from Javier Ruiz to Bellingcat’s Queries
[April 21, 2026]
Translated to English
“As the info topic of the aforementioned private information, I hereby submit this formal request concerning the usage of my identify, picture, and background data in an interview request, with out my prior, categorical, and knowledgeable consent.
The described conduct constitutes a possible violation of my elementary rights to privateness, fame, habeas information, and the precise to my very own picture, the latter repeatedly recognised and guarded by the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Courtroom.
Likewise, the processing of my private information with out authorisation contravenes the provisions of Legislation 1581 of 2012 and its implementing decrees and will represent the offence of private information violation underneath Article 269F of the Colombian Penal Code.
Due to this fact, via this doc, I expressly and instantly request:
– The suspension of any use, processing, circulation, or dissemination of my identify, picture, and different private information.
– The everlasting deletion of any content material, file, report or publication wherein my private data has been used with out my authorisation.
– A exact indication of the origin of the knowledge, the needs of its processing, and the third events with whom it has been shared.
For the needs of the foregoing, I grant a most interval of forty-eight (48) hours from the receipt of this communication to display compliance with the requirement.
In case of non-compliance, I might be obligated to provoke the corresponding authorized actions, together with submitting a writ of safety for the violation of my elementary rights, in addition to administrative proceedings earlier than the Superintendency of Trade and Commerce and any relevant legal actions.
This communication is known as a proper prior request.
Sincerely,
J.R.”
In Spanish (Unique)
“En mi calidad de titular de los datos personales referidos, me permito formular el presente requerimiento formal en relación con el uso de mi nombre, imagen y antecedentes dentro de una solicitud de entrevista, sin que medie autorización previa, expresa e informada de mi parte.
La conducta descrita constituye una posible vulneración de mis derechos fundamentales a la intimidad, al buen nombre, al habeas information y al derecho a la propia imagen, este último reconocido y protegido de manera reiterada por la jurisprudencia de la Corte Constitucional.
De igual forma, el tratamiento de mis datos personales sin autorización contraviene lo dispuesto en la Ley 1581 de 2012 y sus decretos reglamentarios, y podría adecuarse a la conducta tipificada como violación de datos personales conforme al artículo 269F del Código Penal Colombiano.
En virtud de lo anterior, por medio del presente escrito requiero de manera expresa e inmediata:
– La suspensión de cualquier uso, tratamiento, circulación o difusión de mi nombre, imagen y demás datos personales.
– La eliminación definitiva de cualquier contenido, archivo, registro o publicación en la que se haya hecho uso de los mismos sin mi autorización.
– La indicación precisa del origen de la información, las finalidades del tratamiento y los terceros con quienes haya sido compartida.
Para efectos de lo anterior, otorgo un plazo máximo de cuarenta y ocho (48) horas contadas a partir de la recepción de la presente comunicación, a fin de que se acredite el cumplimiento de lo requerido.
En caso de incumplimiento, me veré en la obligación de iniciar las acciones legales correspondientes, incluyendo la interposición de acción de tutela por la vulneración de mis derechos fundamentales, así como las actuaciones administrativas ante la Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio y las acciones penales a que haya lugar.La presente comunicación se entiende como requerimiento previo formal.
Cordialmente,
J.R.”
Second Response from Javier Ruiz to Bellingcat’s Queries
[May 7, 2026]
In English
“SUBJECT: FORMAL REQUEST FOR CESSATION AND WITHDRAWAL – NOTIFICATION OF VIOLATION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND DATA PROTECTION REGIME (LAW 1581 OF 2012)
In my capability as a completely recognized [Colombian] citizen and exercising my authorized rights because the proprietor of private information, I hereby submit this prior and peremptory request based mostly on the next factual and authorized grounds:
1. Lack of Consent and Authorized Foundation:
The unauthorised use of my identify, picture, and biographical data has been established throughout the framework of your informational actions. I declare that there was no prior, categorical, knowledgeable, or certified authorisation for the processing of stated information, contravening the precept of legality and function established in Article 4 of Legislation 1581 of 2012.
2. Autonomy of the Proper to One’s Personal Picture (Judgment T-040 of 2013): I hereby notify you that, in accordance with the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Courtroom in its Judgment T-040 of 2013, the precise to at least one’s personal picture is an autonomous and unbiased proper. Due to this fact, the seize, use, or dissemination of my picture and identify requires my categorical consent, and journalistic apply doesn’t grant an open licence for its exploitation with out prior authorisation, particularly when there isn’t a public curiosity that proportionally justifies it.
3. Violation of Basic Rights:
Your actions represent an arbitrary interference that impacts my proper to Habeas Knowledge, my proper to a superb identify (Artwork. 15 of the Colombian Penal Code), and, particularly, my proper to my very own picture. In keeping with the jurisprudence of the Honourable Constitutional Courtroom, the usage of an individual’s picture with out their consent constitutes an overreach of journalistic apply that isn’t protected by freedom of data when it impacts the personal sphere.
4. Prison and Administrative Legal responsibility: I hereby warn you that the processing of private information with out correct authorisation may represent the conduct outlined in Article 269F of the Colombian Penal Code (Violation of Private Knowledge), along with the fines imposed by the Superintendency of Trade and Commerce (SIC) for non-compliance with information safety laws.
LEGAL CLAIMS:
• IMMEDIATE CESSATION: The suspension of any act of processing, restricted circulation, or dissemination of my id, picture, or delicate information.
• PERMANENT DELETION: The elimination of any report out of your databases or digital platforms containing data whose assortment has not been authorised.
• TRACEABILITY REPORT: Submission of certification detailing the origin of my information and the identification of third events to whom it has been transferred or transmitted.
TERM AND WARNING: You may have a non-extendable time period of forty-eight (48) hours to display compliance with the requests made herein. Silence or a unfavorable response will authorise the initiation of a tutela motion for the fast safety of my elementary rights, in addition to the corresponding Administrative Criticism earlier than the Workplace of the Superintendent Delegate for the Safety of Private Knowledge of the Superintendency of Trade and Commerce (SIC) and legal proceedings earlier than the Workplace of the Lawyer Normal of Colombia.
1) Freedom of expression can’t infringe upon the precise to privateness and honour.
2) The precise to obtain data, or moderately, to tell, can’t supersede the obligation to not disseminate defamatory details about an individual or organisation.
3) A request for data from an unbiased, overseas media outlet can’t be based mostly on faulty presumptions concerning rulings, orders, and precedents pertaining to the Colombian judicial system. I thanks upfront to your consideration, however I want to make clear that I don’t need any response, understanding that you’re complying with the order I’ve given and established.”
In Spanish (Unique)
“ASUNTO: REQUERIMIENTO FORMAL DE CESE Y DESISTIMIENTO – NOTIFICACIÓN DE VULNERACIÓN DE DERECHOS FUNDAMENTALES Y RÉGIMEN DE PROTECCIÓN DE DATOS (LEY 1581 DE 2012)
En mi condición de ciudadano(a) plenamente identificado(a) y en ejercicio de mis facultades legales como titular de datos personales, presento ante ustedes este requerimiento previo y perentorio con base en los siguientes fundamentos de hecho y de derecho:
1. Ausencia de Consentimiento y Base Authorized:
Se ha evidenciado el uso no autorizado de mi nombre, imagen y antecedentes biográficos en el marco de su actividad informativa. Manifiesto que no ha mediado autorización previa, expresa, informada ni calificada para el tratamiento de dichos datos, contraviniendo el principio de legalidad y finalidad establecido en el Artículo 4 de la Ley 1581 de 2012.
2. Autonomía del Derecho a la Propia Imagen (Sentencia T-040 de 2013):
Les notifico que, conforme a la jurisprudencia de la Corte Constitucional en su Sentencia T-040 de 2013, el derecho a la propia imagen es un derecho autónomo e independiente. Por tanto, la captura, uso o difusión de mi imagen y nombre requiere de mi consentimiento expreso, sin que el ejercicio periodístico otorgue una licencia abierta para su explotación sin autorización previa, especialmente cuando no existe un interés público que lo justifique de manera proporcional.
3. Vulneración de Derechos de Carácter Basic:
Su actuación constituye una injerencia arbitraria que afecta mi derecho al Habeas Knowledge, al Buen Nombre (Artwork. 15 C.P.) y, de manera específica, al Derecho a la Propia Imagen. Según la jurisprudencia de la Honorable Corte Constitucional, el uso de la imagen de una persona sin su anuencia es una extralimitación del ejercicio periodístico que no encuentra amparo en la libertad de información cuando se afecta la esfera privada.
4. Responsabilidad Penal y Administrativa:
Les advierto que el tratamiento de datos personales sin la debida autorización podría configurar la conducta tipificada en el Artículo 269F del Código Penal Colombiano (Violación de datos personales), además de las sanciones pecuniarias que la Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio (SIC) impone por el incumplimiento del régimen de protección de datos.
PRETENSIONES LEGALES:
• CESE INMEDIATO: La suspensión de cualquier acto de tratamiento, circulación restringida o difusión de mi identidad, imagen o datos sensibles.
• SUPRESIÓN DEFINITIVA: La eliminación de cualquier registro en sus bases de datos o plataformas digitales que contenga información cuya recolección no haya sido autorizada.
• INFORME DE TRAZABILIDAD: Remitir certificación detallando el origen de mis datos y la identificación de terceros a quienes les hayan sido transferidos o transmitidos.
TÉRMINO Y ADVERTENCIA:
Cuentan con un término improrrogable de cuarenta y ocho (48) horas para acreditar el cumplimiento de lo aquí solicitado. El silencio o la respuesta negativa facultará el inicio de la Acción de Tutela para la protección inmediata de mis derechos fundamentales, así como la respectiva Denuncia Administrativa ante la Delegatura para la Protección de Datos Personales de la SIC y las acciones penales ante la Fiscalía Normal de la Nación.
1) La libertad de expresión no puede coartar el derecho a la privacidad y a la honra.
2)El derecho a recibir información o más bien; a informar no puede supeditar el deber de no difundir información calumniosa sobre una persona u organización
3) Un requerimiento de información por un medio independiente y extranjero no puede basarse en presunciones erróneas sobre sentencias, órdenes y antecedentes correspondientes al sistema judicial colombiano
De ante mano agradezco la atención prestada, sin antes aclarar que no deseo respuesta alguna, teniendo claro que acatan la orden dada y establecida de mi parte.”
Carlos Gonzales and Pooja Chaudhuri contributed analysis to this piece.
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