The Anti-Corruption Social Response Force (FUERSA) is a group of anti-corruption activists made up of Iván Velásquez, Camilo Enciso, José Acosta, León Valencia and Catherine Juvinao.
This organization is a coalition of civil society organizations, attached to FUERSA, to which the Corporación Cívica de Caldas and Arauca Transparente currently belong. These entities are represented, respectively, by Camilo Vallejo and Daniel Carvajal. Their primary objective is the fight against corruption using a more local, territorial approach.
Events
Members of FUERSA present “Alexander Vega and the business behind the electoral reform”
On 27 October 2020, members of the FUERSA group, including León Valencia and Camilo Enciso, alongside members of the PARES foundation, presented the investigation “Alexander Vega and the business behind the electoral reform”.
FUERSA and PARES lead discussion about who controls the National Government’s actions within the framework of Covid-19?
On Wednesday 20 May 2020, the Anti-Corruption Social Response Force (known as FUERSA) and the Fundación Paz y Reconciliación (Peace and Reconciliation Foundation known as PARES), led a discussion about who controls the actions of the National Government within the framework of Covid-19. The following members of FUERSA participated in the discussion: Margie Mojica and Camilo Enciso, representing the Anti-Corruption Institute, León Valencia and Carlos Castelblanco as members of the Fundación Paz y Reconciliación (Peace and Reconciliation Foundation), and Catherine Juviano as a member of the “Trabajen Vagos” (“Work, lazybones”) movement.
During the discussion, fuerza outlined and explained some of the concerns that they had included in an open letter addressed to the National Government, the three High Courts and the Congress of the Republic, regarding the way in which democracy functions during the State of Emergency.
As part of the discussion, the members debated three key points:
- How do you evaluate the performance of the Congress of the Republic during this pandemic, including the delay in the start of formal sessions, political control and the proposals that it has made?
- How do you evaluate the performance of the Congress of the Republic during this pandemic, including the delay in the start of formal sessions, political control and the proposals that it has made?
- How would you evaluate the performance of the High Courts, particularly the Constitutional Court, during the National Emergency?
Actions
Members of FUERSA file lawsuit calling for electoral nullity against the Supreme Court of Justice and Francisco José Ternera Barrios
On 28 July 28 2020, Iván Velásquez, León Valencia and Camilo Enciso, members of the Anti-Corruption Social Response Force (FUERSA), alongside other citizens, filed a petition calling for electoral nullity with the Supreme Court of Justice and Dr. Francisco José Ternera Barrios.
Concerns about the application of standard specifications and their regulation by Colombia Compra Eficiente (National Procurement Agency)
On July 23, 2020, the Anti-Corruption Social Response Force (FUERSA) presented a letter to the Director of the National Contracting Agency Colombia Compra Eficiencia regarding their concerns around the application of standard specifications and their regulation by Colombia Compra Eficiente (the National Procurement Agency).
The Anti-Corruption Social Response Force (FUERSA) and Cuestión Pública warn of potential conflicts of interest in the election of the President of the Senate
On 16 July 2020, the Anti-Corruption Social Response Force (FUERSA), in conjunction with the investigative journalism portal, Cuestión Pública, filed a petition with the President of the Senate, Lidio García, as well as all the senators that make up the Upper House of the Congress of the Republic, for them to respond with information about possible campaign donations, credits or commercial relations of these with companies of the Char Group, which would configure a conflict of interest for the senators who eventually decided to vote for the candidate of the Radical Change Party, Senator Arturo Char Chaljub, to the presidency of the corporation.
Open letter to the National Government, the Congress of the Republic, the Constitutional Court and the Council of State
On 11 May 2020, members of the Anti-Corruption Social Response Force (known as FUERSA) sent an open letter to the National Goverment, the Congress of the Republic, the Constitutional Court and the Council of State. The letter expressed their various concerns regarding the way in which democracy is functioning in Colombian, the country’s institutions and the system of checks and balances against the backdrop of the State of Emergency decreed by the National Government in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Anticorruption Force demands election of the National Register
On 15 November 2019, the Anticorruption Social Response Force (FUERSA) filed an electoral annulment claim before the State Council, against the appointment of Mr. Alexander Vega as Colombia’s National Registrar.
Anti-Corruption Force presented a statement to the Supreme Court of Justice detailing certain considerations regarding the election of the Attorney General of the Nation
On 9 December 2019, the FUERSA group presented a statement to the Supreme Court of Justice with some considerations regarding the candidate for Attorney General of the Nation, Clara María González. They urged the Court to take into account the ethics of the actions of the candidates and the denunciation made by Noticias Uno about the aforementioned candidate.