The revelation of three million files related to the sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein on January 30 has once again left former Colombian president Andrés Pastrana in the eye of the storm, who is once again mentioned, but also several of the most important business figures in Latin America. In many cases, the documents found do not draw direct lines with the American financier's human trafficking scheme, some of them minors.

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"I have received your email. The driver will be in the luggage area with a sign with your name. Let me know if you have received my message + if you already have the information of the apartment you are going to stay in."

The communication is from the partner and accomplice of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Ghisleine Maxwell, sentenced to 20 years in prison for her participation in her partner's sex trafficking plot, and is addressed to former Colombian president Andrés Pastrana.

It is one of the 37 files in which Pastrana appears again, after the United States Department of Justice declassified another three million documents related to the sexual predator Epstein, who died in prison in 2019, on January 30.

The former president had already come under pressure on December 19, when other files released from the Epstein case showed him in a photograph with Maxwell, hugging and both dressed in Colombian Air Force flight uniforms.

Now there is a context for that meeting: a simulated military adventure apparently organized by Pastrana. The new revelations include an email from April 2003, less than a year after Pastrana finished his term.

In it, Maxwell explains: “I have photos (...) in which I am with the president, who invited me and organized the entire party, including having the terrorists run around me so that I could shoot them.”

“We became friends”

The Justice Department has also published minutes of Maxwell's interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, in which he details the origin of the relationship: "I am a helicopter pilot and Andrés is a helicopter pilot. And we became friends and I piloted a Blackhawk in Colombia."

The new revelations include a series of messages from 2004 in which Pastrana repeatedly asks him to confirm whether he has received his emails notifying him of his early arrival in New York on a Continental Airlines flight, until he finally receives a response from Maxwell informing him of the driver who will meet him at the airport.

There are also communications from Epstein himself, in which he proposes to modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel an early meeting with Pastrana and music industry businessman Tommy Mottola, who plans to become the “czar of entertainment in Cuba,” or another where he greets him by his first name and confesses “very happy to see you again.”

Pastrana responded to questions about his closeness to Epstein and Maxwell with a long publication in

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In addition, he acknowledges having traveled on Epstein's plane, but adds that "he was not publicly recognized then as a pedophile but as an investor with high-level global clients and connections."

“Jane the water gazelle is really impressive”

Pastrana is not the only Latin American figure whose name appears in the gigantic batch of declassified documents.

The list includes members of the Mexican business elite, such as the president of TV Azteca Ricardo Salinas Pliego or the telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim, recipients of several emails from Epstein inviting them to different events.

However, the files do not include responses from either of them, so it is not possible to verify whether or not they responded to the invitations.

The same happens with other Mexican billionaires, such as the businesswoman María Asunción Aramburuzabala, the president of Televisa Alfonso de Angoitia and the bankers Antonio del Valle and Fernando Chico Pardo, whom Epstein invited to a gala at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, with no response from any recorded in the files.

Much closer seems the relationship with the Venezuelan millionaire Francisco D'Agostino, a controversial oil operator accused of being part of a group of contractors who built their fortunes with resources destined for the recovery of the electrical grid in his country.

D'Agostino, who is being investigated for corruption in Venezuela and the United States along with his partner Alejandro Betancourt, is mentioned 755 times in Epstein's documents, with several communications addressed by him to the financier.

In one of them, dated 2012, he highlights how much fun he had on “Little St. Jeffrey” island and mentions “Jane, the water gazelle,” whom he describes as “impressive” and “a very beautiful and smart girl.” In the email, he says goodbye by saying that he would “love to explore different possibilities of making money together.”

The communications between the two also include data on apparently completed financial operations.

In a long email from 2012, he proposed a meeting in which, according to him, his partner Betancourt, the then financial advisor of PDVSA Baldo Sansó, the businessman Oswaldo Cisneros, Alejandro Andrade, treasurer of the nation at that time and today imprisoned in the United States and, among others, a representative of bilateral agreements with the Government of China, would participate.

In that same communication he promises that “Henry Ramos Allup, leader of the Venezuelan opposition, and also my brother-in-law” will be present and ends by saying that the list includes “the most important people in the country, both in the private and government spheres.”

Two weeks after that message, Epstein appeared to be considering D'Agostino's proposed trip to Venezuela.

"If it's convenient, Jenn, Svet and I would arrive on Thursday the 8th (November 2012) at 12:30. We would leave on Friday. See the Amazon, if it's not far. Should I make a stop on a Venezuelan island?" he asks.

The declassified documents do not allow us to confirm whether the visit finally took place.

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