When Cortés allegedly burned the Spanish ships, he did not take a poll.

Concerning Mr. Francisco José Cortés Aguilar, Mr. Carmelo Peñaranda Rosas and Mr. Claudio Ramírez Cuevas.

In this sense, Cortés s strategy was perfect in case of defeat, the Spanish would have no time to rebuild the burned ships.

Perhaps Cortés, blinded by his dreams of glory, was ready to sacrifice his troops even when the odds of victory were too slim.

But if you send a mining team there, without the return propellant, first Did any of you guys hear the story of Cortez?

Furthermore, it has been noted that the public nature and seriousness of the charges have led to threats against other lawyers and defence attorneys associated with Francisco Cortés.

Francisco Cortés Aguilar, Carmelo Peñaranda Rosas and Claudio Ramírez Cuevas have been deprived of liberty since 10 April 2003 and continue to be held in pretrial detention.

The prosecutor for matters involving controlled substances charged Francisco Cortés Aguilar, Claudio Ramírez Cuevas and Carmelo Peñaranda Rosas with the crime of trafficking in controlled substances.

Had Cortés s strategy failed, he would have gone down in history if he was remembered at all as an arrogant fool who thought that he could defeat a great empire.

At first, this might seem like a crazy move Why intentionally destroy the only possible way out in case of defeat? Cortes allegedly did it to motivate his troops.

When Cortés allegedly burned the Spanish ships, he did not take a poll. Had he done so, he might have won (the strategy was clever), but it was not a foregone conclusion.

To work properly, a commitment strategy should also be costly in case of failure had Cortés lost, no Spanish soldier would have escaped alive.

It is claimed that a single generic charge was brought against 19 individuals, including Messrs. Cortés, Ramírez and Peñaranda, making it impossible to link the alleged crimes to specific acts or to substantiate the allegations.

But even if the commitment strategy produced beneficial incentives, it might not have been worth the risk. Perhaps Cortés, blinded by his dreams of glory, was ready to sacrifice his troops even when the odds of victory were too slim.

While not historically accurate, one of the best examples of a strategic commitment is provided by the legend of Hernán Cortés, according to which, in his quest to conquer Mexico, he decided to burn the ships that had brought his expedition from Spain.

The problem is that we are bound to hear about only the successful historical examples of such a strategy. Had Cortés s strategy failed, he would have gone down in history if he was remembered at all as an arrogant fool who thought that he could defeat a great empire.

The source reaffirms that the detention took place in an atmosphere designed to make a scapegoat of Colombian human rights defender Francisco Cortés Aguilar, by using his detention as a piece of political propaganda to convince public opinion that it constituted a step forward in the fight against terrorism.

Lastly, the source affirms that Francisco Cortés Aguilar is being held in a private jail, and is continually being harassed by intelligence agents. He is filmed, photographed and placed under microphone surveillance, guarded round the clock by four wardens and subjected to subhuman conditions of detention, which have affected his health.

In this regard, the Working Group has been informed that several Colombian citizens and one Peruvian citizen, all of whom had been granted refugee status by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Bolivia, were forced to leave Bolivia because the police threatened to arrest them if they did not denounce Francisco Cortés.