Rafael - OPERACIÓN BALLENA AZUL lyrics

ESTHER.- We made the proposal to engineer Montañez and had no problem. He said That we ask the bank to approve the transfer of the mortgage On behalf of the company Produmédicos Limitada and the next day we would write trading. Rafael said good, but we wanted to pa** us immediately. If that was the case, once we moved we would start Pay fifty thousand pesos a month that we would lose if we did not approve the mortgage. But, in addition, we would continue to pay this same amount until the moment of Vacate the house If the mortgage was approved he would pay these items to us. initial fee. BLUE WHALE OPERATION J HOLLMAN MORRIS Movement April 19, M-19 Collective Juvenile Carlos Pizarro Leongómez 14 Seeing our urgency, he decided to press us too. He told us that it was almost an end Of the year and that if the bank delayed approving the loan it was losing Interest on the million pesos of the mortgage, which at two percent were twenty thousand Monthly pesos of interest, which we would lose when the loan was approved. RAFAEL.- To talk about the operation of the Blue Whale you have to go back. To the Which was the company Produmédicos Limitada. I speak of 1975, when the Organization Received good money in exchange for the release of Donald Cooper, then manager Of the multinational company Sears Roebuck, retained by a command of the Eme (M-19). Once these funds were put into dollars, Bateman told me that there was Need to establish a legal and concrete company, open to trade and the public, for Which I should present to you as soon as possible a plan to structure it. He saw The urgency that this money should become productive and begin to solidify the Economic self-sufficiency of the Organization. Bateman said that the Eme had become rich with Cooper's arrest, thanks to Whose exchange managed to handle a fairly high budget, a million dollars, and explained That thanks to these monies the arcas were filled to develop the political project With more depth. At that time, he had been working in the line of products for about a year In a small and dynamic company and there I knew more about that medium, So that by the end of the year we founded Produmédicos Limitada. Then my mindset Was reduced and when the initial capital was discussed I told Bateman that I would Calculated in half a million Colombian pesos; He burst out laughing. "With that not We arrived at the curb of the front, "he told me and ordered me to deliver fifty thousand Dollars, which at that time were about two million pesos: a fortune. Within weeks we imported and distributed materials for clinics, Private and official hospitals, surgical instruments, machinery and equipment for Medicine throughout the country. Produmédicos Limitada was a company that moved a lot Money and therefore enjoyed a great bank credit. He was very punctual in his Obligations and was taking a lot of prestige in the middle. When to start The operation to reach the Blue Whale, Produmédicos financed the Eme in Two hundred thousand pesos a month, which were its profits, and, I repeat, in that Moment they represented a fortune. Earlier this month we were ready to diversify and grow a lot, Importers and distributors were going to move to industrial Which would already cover the large areas of health such as Social Insurance. Y BLUE WHALE OPERATION J HOLLMAN MORRIS Movement April 19, M-19 Collective Juvenile Carlos Pizarro Leongómez fifteen Being in these cabals and with such possibilities I presented the project to Bateman and he said it was good, solid, but he had another better for us. In That moment was when he spoke of the a**ault on the PM truck to get some weapons and Then Produmédicos happened to the background. From that moment all our Attention was for the weapons.