{"id":105632,"date":"2026-01-28T15:14:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/lucho-herrera-prosecutors-office-investigates-former-cyclist-for-forced-disappearance\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T15:14:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:14:35","slug":"lucho-herrera-prosecutors-office-investigates-former-cyclist-for-forced-disappearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/lucho-herrera-prosecutors-office-investigates-former-cyclist-for-forced-disappearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucho Herrera: Prosecutor’s Office Investigates Former Cyclist for Forced Disappearance"},"content":{"rendered":"The Colombian Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation against the renowned former cyclist Luis ‘Lucho’ Herrera, champion of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a in 1987, and his brother Rafael, for their alleged involvement in the disappearance of four people more than two decades ago in Fusagasug\u00e1, Cundinamarca, the hometown of the brothers.\n\nThe decision was made by a prosecutor from the Specialized Directorate against Human Rights Violations, who is investigating the Herrera brothers as possible responsible parties for the disappearance of the four people in the rural area of Fusagasug\u00e1 on October 23, 2002, according to an official statement.\n\nThe investigation suggests that ‘Lucho’ and Rafael Herrera would have contacted members of the extinct Autodefensas Campesinas del Casanare, which operated in the Sumapaz region between 2002 and 2003, to kidnap a group of people who lived near the Herrera family’s properties.\n\nThe case came to light in April of last year when Judge Mar\u00eda del Pilar Bocarejo asked the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the alleged participation of the former cyclist in the forced disappearance of four neighbors, with the collaboration of paramilitary groups.\n\nIt is presumed that the former cyclist sought protection from paramilitary groups after being kidnapped by the FARC in the year 2000.\n\n\n

Accusations of paramilitaries<\/h2>\n\n\nIn a hearing last year, the judge explained that, in a trial against the ex-paramilitary Luis Fernando G\u00f3mez Fl\u00f3rez, convicted of the disappearance of the four people, he directly accused ‘Lucho’ Herrera in a statement on October 11, 2022.\n\nAccording to the version of G\u00f3mez, alias Ojitos, and another ex-paramilitary named \u00d3scar Andr\u00e9s Huertas, alias Menudencias, both received the order from Mart\u00edn Llanos, leader of the Autodefensas Campesinas del Casanare, to fulfill a commission from Herrera to make the neighbors disappear, supposedly with the aim of taking their lands.\n\n
\"Luis<\/figure>\n\nThe Prosecutor’s Office reported that the bodies of two of the victims were found in 2008 in Silvania, Cundinamarca, and delivered to their families in December 2025. The search for the other two missing persons continues.\n\nThe Herrera brothers will be formally linked to the investigation for the crime of forced disappearance in an inquiry hearing scheduled for February 6.\n\nAdditionally, Rafael Herrera faces charges for violent carnal access due to the sexual abuse of a minor, related to the investigation.\n\nHerrera, 64 years old, was the first Colombian cyclist to win the mountain champion’s jersey in the three grand tours, in addition to winning the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a in 1987.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Colombian Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation against the renowned former cyclist Luis ‘Lucho’ Herrera, champion of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a in 1987, and his brother Rafael, for their alleged involvement in the disappearance of four people more than two decades ago in Fusagasug\u00e1, Cundinamarca, the hometown of the brothers. The decision was made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[11554,11555,11556,11557],"class_list":{"0":"post-105632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-forced-disappearance","9":"tag-fusagasuga","10":"tag-lucho-herrera","11":"tag-paramilitaries"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}