Miércoles 21 de Enero de 2026

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Juliana Guerrero paid for her degree before paying tuition — the invoice trail proving title fraud is visible in DIAN's public database.

1. Lo Más Caracol, directed by Carlos Castro Arias, aired its January 21, 2026 edition covering Colombian investigative journalism across four major stories. 2. Hosts Daniel Coronel and Julio lead the broadcast, joined by journalists José Andrés González and Rafael Aristizábal from Caracol Radio's investigative unit. 3. The episode's central thesis is that systemic fraud — in university credentials, government contracting, and criminal justice — is operating in plain view while state institutions fail to act. 4. Representative Jennifer Pedraza discovered three DIAN invoices showing Juliana Guerrero paid a 1-million-peso graduation fee on July 28, 2025, before paying tuition on July 29, 2025 — degrees already issued July 1, 2025. 5. Pedraza reports that Fundación Universitaria San José Secretary General Luis Carlos Gutiérrez was fired and denounced, and founder Francisco Pareja admitted in a broadcast interview that Guerrero never studied there. 6. Pedraza's office has investigated more than 1,257 contractor titles linked to San José, noting the accounting department — not a rogue secretary — processed all payments, indicating institutional complicity. 7. Juliana Guerrero filed a criminal complaint against Pedraza for alleged computer hacking after Pedraza showed the ICFES portal contained no Saber Pro or Saber TIT records for Guerrero. 8. Guerrero did not appear at a mandatory conciliation hearing before the Supreme Court in the slander case she initiated against Pedraza. 9. Representative Catherine Jubinao says 24 people with dubious San José credentials have been hired by the national government across 16 entities including the Senate, the DIAN, the DANE, INVIMA, and the Ministry of Health. 10. Jubinao identifies two irregularity patterns: six contractors never sat the Saber Pro exam, and others received their Saber Pro after graduating — both legally invalidating the degree under Law 1324 of 2009. 11. Jubinao states at least 1,102 million pesos in public salary resources have already been paid to implicated contractors, with contracts renewed as recently as 2026. 12. The Ministry of Education opened an investigation into San José four months prior to the broadcast but had not announced sanctions or intervened to protect legitimately enrolled students. 13. Governor Luis Alfonso Escobar of Nariño says the technical table offered by the Ministry of Finance and Interior failed to resolve two demands: a legal safeguard protecting departmental budgets and recognition that the World Bank study uses 2023-2024 data predating forced liquor-market liberalization. 14. Escobar notes Nariño's liquor revenues may fall because larger departments can now enter its market under the Constitutional Court's monopoly ruling, making the World Bank projections unreliable for smaller departments. 15. Caracol Radio's investigative unit identified alias El Chino as connected to brothers Ramón Emilio and Andrés Felipe Pérez Hoyos, who are linked to the May 2022 murder of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci in Cartagena. 16. Frank David Abreu, alias Frank, allegedly served as the intermediary who offered 300 million pesos to contract the assassination, according to confessions from two convicted sicarios. 17. A forensic extraction of phone records belonging to slain witness Francisco Luis Correa revealed the name of a police officer who was allegedly performing favors for Correa in exchange for money. 18. The broadcast is a compilation of radio interviews from Caracol Radio's morning news programs, with a conversational yet pointed tone; hosts frequently interject with legal analysis and verify documents live on air. 19. People interested in Colombian investigative journalism on corruption in government contracting, university fraud, and organized crime will find this episode dense with primary-source material. 20. Listeners who prefer focused single-topic podcasts or non-Spanish-language content may find the multi-segment format and rapid subject shifts difficult to follow.

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