La historia secreta del fin del ‘Consenso de Viena’

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In the WU, Colonel Yes Alberto' s report, many listeners write to

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me and tell me that I must
have a mistake in talking about today'

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s Colonel report, because I have
said it is the secret story of the

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end of the Vienna consensus. I
know PCs that consensus, because that is

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the first that the Colonel report has
is that it is the end of that

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meeting that, like everything in the
United Nations, is of no use,

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because the custom is to agree on
everything is unanimously. Then why, why

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don' t you solve anything.
It' s called the Vienna consensus.

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Historically, until what the Colonel report
is going to denounce, everything was unanimous,

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everything was a custom. In Vienna
they agreed for everything or they agreed

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for everything, i e one,
here was no use at all. I

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don' t know if this changes, but it is that the United Nations,

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yes, sooner or later, speaks, there will be, that will

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have to be fixed. Seven in
the morning twenty minutes. This is LEU

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and this is Colonel Daniel' s
report Welcome, good morning, Julio.

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This is today' s Colonel report. This news has been going on since

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last week BSIL United Nations, in
New York, in Geneva, in Paris

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and, of course, in Vienna. The diplomatic world has been a kind

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of earthquake, largely caused by Colombia. The funny thing is that in our

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country the news has been little commented, perhaps because it coincided with Holy Week.

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A very long tradition of unanimous decisions
at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic

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Drugs suddenly ended a few days ago. The custom was so entrenched and accepted

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that it already had the name of
the old consensus that the Austrian headquarters of

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the United Nations had never been voted
on a decision was simply taken unanimously,

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without any disagreement, when all agreed. They claimed that many in the diplomatic

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world loved that. But everything has
to be said has led to the delegates

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of the countries always moving within a
convenient medianía that did not bother anyone,

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but where there were not great determinations. Since I am not a diplomat,

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I can say with all the letters, they were very traditional, visible and

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to some extent mediocre decisions, because
in terms of reaching consensus, nothing ever

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changed on account of this. For
example, the anti- drug policy adopted

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by the member countries of the United
Nations since one thousand nine hundred and seventy

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- one has never been examined in
depth. Fifty- two years ago,

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when the then- uniter, Richard
Nixon, declared drugs the number one public

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enemy. Little, then, can
the cat say that all those years they

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have enriched weapons, chemical fumigators,
radars, warships, they have militarized the

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police of the producing countries in the
Third World, they have strengthened, they

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have grown the millionaire budgets of the
Santyros agents, but the drug trafficking there

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has not disappeared. Autumn seems to
grow with weddings. Daniel, let me

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have a second word. There'
s drug trafficking. That' s where

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we' re going to change the
channel, because you have a guest and

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we want you to listen very well. And in traffic there is what we

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were talking about a consensus, a
United Nations office paid by the world where

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nothing happens, because they always agree
on the whole consensus, the Vienna consensus.

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And suddenly the consensus was over and
the protagonist a Colombian. In seconds

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we' re returning to the Colonel
report by a more direct line. Daniel

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and drug trafficking. There is,
the drug trade. There are quantities of

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hectares or acres sown with illicit crops
increasing or decreasing according to the supply and

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demand of narcos, but it does
not end or move from one country to

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another July across borders without ending it
lies whoever says it has been about to

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end. He' s only moved
from what experts call the balloon effect.

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If pressed on one side, the
air inflates another part of the same group.

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Finally, the sixty- seventh session
of the United Nations Com mission of

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Accidental Estopon, which had to warn
the advance, was held in Vienna and

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bought in two thousand nineteen. The
first discrepancy arose from the invitation to the

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United Nations High Commissioners for Human Rights, Volker terp an Austria, which succeeded

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former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet in that
position and whose head office is in Geneva

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Sui And there he leapt to see
that the UN operates in separate silos that

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distrust each other. Those in Vienna
don' t see much sympathy. Those

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in Geneva may have tried to make
the visustra a Friday by the tap The

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insistence of several diplomatic delegations, among
which was the result that the Human Rights

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Commissioner' s speech took place on
Thursday before a suspicious audience, but attentive

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there, the Commissioner argued that the
fight against drugs should contemplate the protection of

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human rights, something that seems obvious. It' s all one, because

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the two of you have always gone
through separate lines. One lane goes to

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the anti- drug struggle in Vienna
and, by lot, human rights in

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Geneva. The second had to do
with a declaration that went to the first

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four years of the ministerial commitment of
two thousand nineteen and was eminently prohibitive,

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the usual more repression, hoping that
the same formula always produced different results.

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And this is where the role of
Colombia in alliance who believed it with the

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United States is always scored on two
issues. First was included the expression harm

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reduction for the first time, challenging
the routine and active opposition of two colossians,

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Russia and China. Colombia' s
ambassador Laura Gil threatened to call for

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a vote without the expression mentioned nine
times in the statement at the initiative of

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the United States was to exclude,
which meant the end of the Vienna consensus.

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Russia, feeling strong enough, ended
up asking for a vote and guess.

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It voted and won the n with
thirty- eight votes in favor,

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including Colombia, the United States,
Britain and Switzerland, two votes against sins,

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China and Russia and six abstentions.
The existence of such a vote alone

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killed the Vienna consensus. But that
wasn' t all the seconds. What

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happened is that in the routine statement, Colombia introduced a paragraph that is a

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kind of Trojan horse, in which
it talks about the need to advance the

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anti- drug struggle, with special
attention to human rights and the need to

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adapt innovative measures. Given this say
the failures of the narcotics IT applied so

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far. To talk about this subject
and only about this subject, she accepted

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the invitation to be in the report
today the protagonist of this diplomat, the

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Ambassador of Colombia Austria, Laura Gil, whom we greet now. Good morning,

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Madam Ambassador. Very good morning,
Daniel, very good morning to the

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whole table, Mr Ambassador, what
does the approval of this clarification mean for

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Colombia? You could repeat the question. Please, Daniel, did you want

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to ask what the adoption of this
declaration means to Colombia? Well, there

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were several of them. There is
no document that is an official prohibitionist document

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where we put this paragraph, which
was what mattered to us, because that

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paragraph, as you well say,
is a troya horse that united, which

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together with the declaration of the sixty- two countries saying that the global drug

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regime failed. It allows Colombia,
with the like countries, to convene the

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conversation that continues from now on,
which is how we reform it and the

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harm reduction that finally enshrines the end
of the Vienna consensus. The Commission on

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Narcotic Drugs is an achievement and I
think it is not yet dimensioned in Colombia,

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because what we did was change the
path of global drug policy. That

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' s simple. This is something
we were looking for, that there were

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countries that had been looking for for
20 years. Ambassador for international diplomacy,

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what consequences the end of spirit brings
The Vienna consensus was broken in the nations

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of the nascent United Nations. I
think it' s a change in the

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way we work in Vienna, literally
in Geneva and New York, the headquarters

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of the United Nations vote and nobody
thinks twice about Vienna. The bodies operating

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here do not vote. They vote. They were very occasionally and a resolution

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had never been voted on in the
Commission on Narcotic Drugs. The only thing

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to be voted on was that instruments
were on which lists of prohibitions. That

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thing we broke up at the last
session. It changes the way we work,

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it makes us lose the fear of
breaking the Vienna consensus. What was

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going on? Consensus is an institution, literally an institution, and countries are

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very afraid to break it. A
huge fear to do the first I kicked

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the board. In fact, I
was told by the countries if Colombia does,

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but we do not want to be
the first to do so. The

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reason why it operated on the basis
of consensus is that, since the resolutions

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of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs are
not legally binding, or a consensus resolution

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has more political and quasi- illegal
weight than one taken by a vote of

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say the countries it defends in consensus. It was clear to us this was

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the time to do so. If
we didn' t step in right now

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and we' re going to keep
skating and consider in the Embassy with Chancellor

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Murillo, that we really had to
step in and we did it and it

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worked. But I must say Daniel, we did it in a resolution that

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was a U S resolution and the
situation was very simple. Colombia said if

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it doesn' t go with harm
reduction. We took it to the vote

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and the United States had to choose. Well who leads to who. Let

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' s say there was going to
be a vote, because if not Russia

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had also threatened that it would go
with harm reduction. They called. But

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since I knew there was going to
be a vote, we had to say

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make sure that resolution happened, because
the worst thing that could happen is that

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that resolution, which was very good, was not going to happen. So,

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let' s literally say, it
was up to the embassy and our

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like- minded countries to get the
votes to do it. I saw the

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votes. I organized an organization as
if it were in the Colombian Congress,

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more or less that no ambassador could
get out of his chair or go to

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the bathroom until it was thrown out
and well, that' s how we

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got the most theories, and only
two countries against it. Yeah, I

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pick up, like any Atlantic gator, the Hungarian ambassador got away from the

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poor meeting. Well, the result. He didn' t say anything happy

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to the Russian ambassador. Allow me
to read some of the things you said.

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He called the solution unacceptable. She
objected that she would have been applauded.

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He said it was quotes, a
terrible situation that can hardly be a

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cause for applause. He assured that
Russia is a responsible country, committed to

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the spirit of Vienna and a drug- free society, and called the language

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of controversial liberator. He also accused
the United States of lowering the bar and

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raising the white flag in the war
on drug traffickers. I conclude that the

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resolution is null and simple. What
do you think of the Russian baler speech

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on fire? Yeah, there'
s a quietic to see if we saw

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it. The finale Daniel Bueno wanted
to thank the Ambassador of Colombia is indeed

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an unprecedented fact what has happened in
Buena Laura. Gill has been the protagonist

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of this diplomatic earthquake that occupies all
the specialized publications in Europe. Many countries

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are interested in returning to the spirit
of Vienna and amended consensus. However,

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the taboo to avoid voting was buried
this Holy week and open up ahead there

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will be room to call votes instead
of extending artificial unanimity that have called for

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changes in the world' s anti- drug policy. To say the least,

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that was today' s sport,
Colonel. Thank you very much.

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I need a bonus track, because
if anyone can hear from Timo, you

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should know that you' ve been
able to find out about Mr Timotin in

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July, since when this man'
s identity became known. Timothy Alan Livingston

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was giving things like ana said.
He lives in clivelan Ohio, even though

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he' s traveled by Lord Dave. He owns a house over there valued

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at$ 400, 000. He
has no criminal record. All I found

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were eleven traffic violations that range from
passing a red light to crossing the speed

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limit having an excessively noisy car.
I also saw that he has a boat

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that went bankrupt at a time when
he has four civil proceedings. Well,

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anyway, that' s Mr Livingstone, which is the character we should talk

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to. Yeah, we' re
going to insist on his phones as well

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as Ana Daniel' s. Thank
you back to the report, Colonel.