Imelda Daza-Cotes
Colombian Speaker calls for release of political prisoner Ricardo Palmera
Imelda Daza-Cotes recently completed a national speaking tour that included a
stop in Minneapolis. Once a political activist and elected official in
Colombia, Daza-Cotes was targeted by a murderous campaign that wiped out the
Patriotic Union, a leftist political party that rose to prominence in the
1980s. She fled to Sweden where she’s been living in exile since 1989. On Feb.
13, Daza-Cotes addressed an audience of 40 people at Spirit of the Lakes Church
in Minneapolis to discuss her experiences, as well as the extradition and trial
of Colombian rebel Ricardo Palmera and U.S. intervention in her homeland.
