The Attorney General, Luz Adriana Camargo Garzón, appointed the first directors who will accompany her administration to accomplish the five pillars that she has established to guarantee access to criminal justice and improve the institution’s response capacity in the territories.
Gilberto Javier Guerrero Díaz took office as Deputy Attorney General; Hernando Barreto Ardila as coordinator Delegate Prosecutors’ Unit before the Supreme Court of Justice; Ligia Stella Rodríguez Hernández as Executive Director; Deicy Jaramillo Rivera as Delegate Director for Territorial Security, Gabriel Sandoval Vargas as Delegate Director against Organized Crime, Henry Arturo Cruz Vega as director of the Technical Investigative Corps (CTI); José Fernando Flórez Ruiz as Director of Public Policies and Strategy.
Learn about the professional profiles of the staff below:
- Gilberto Javier Guerrero Díaz, Deputy Attorney General
He received a Law Degree from Universidad de Nariño and he majored in criminal and criminological sciences at Universidad Externado de Colombia and in constitutional law at Universidad Santiago de Cali.
He was delegate prosecutor before the court since 2010, a position in which he ranked first in the selection process to join the Attorney General’s Office.
Throughout his career in the Judicial Branch, he has worked as judge of mixed jurisdiction in San Pablo (Nariño), municipal judge in Ipiales (Nariño), judge of the circuit court, assistant magistrate Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Justice and director of the Sectional Office in Cali (Valle del Cauca) during the administrations of Vivian Morales, Eduardo Montealegre and Néstor Humberto Martínez.
Deputy Attorney General, Gilberto Guerrero is an expert in criminal law who has studied and influenced academically, conceptually, and functionally the change from the old Colombian inquiring process to the current Accusatory Criminal System.
His work regarding the implementation of the Accusatory Criminal System has been developed as an instructor in the OPDAT agency, attached to the United States Department of Justice (2003-2013); as a member of the Comisión Permanente de Monitoreo y Seguimiento a la Implementación y Desarrollo del Sistema Acusatorio (Permanent Commission for Monitoring and Follow-up the Implementation and Development of the Accusatory System), which is made up of the Attorney General in Phases I, II and III; and co-author of the Manual de Procedimientos en Sistema Acusatorio (Manual of Procedures in the Accusatory System) of the Attorney General’s Office in 2005.
Deputy Attorney General, Gilberto Guerrero has been coordinator of the training program at the Attorney General’s Office, in the Sectional Office in Nariño, and trainer at the so-called school Escuela de Investigación Criminal y Ciencias Forenses (School of Criminal Investigation and Forensic Sciences) at the Attorney General’s Office (2001-2007).
In the academy, he stood out as teacher in universities such as Universidad de Nariño, Cooperativa de Colombia and San Buenaventura de Cali.
- Hernando Barreto Ardila, Coordinator of the Delegate Prosecutors’ Unit before the Supreme Court of Justice
He received a Law degree from the Universidad Externado de Colombia, and a master’s degree in criminal law and criminology from Universidad Externado de Colombia; and he majored in criminal and criminological sciences at Universidad Externado de Colombia, in human rights at Instituto de Derechos Humanos Guillermo Cano de la ESAP (Human Rights Institute), and in human rights at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Between 1999 – 2001 and 2004 – 2024, he was an assistant magistrate at the appeal court of the Supreme Court of Justice. He also worked as a sectional prosecutor in the Specialized Unit for Crimes against the Public Administration and the Administration of Justice (1992 – 1996); and as a municipal judge of Bogotá between 1990 and 1992.
On the other hand, he has been a professor of general criminal law at Universidad Externado de Colombia, from 1991 to 2024.
- Ligia Stella Rodríguez Hernández, Executive Director
She received a degree in Law and she majored in administrative law at Universidad del Rosario. She has more than 25 years of experience in legal, administrative and institutional financial issues in public and private entities.
Between 2020 and 2024, she was assistant secretary of Corporate Management at the Secretaria Distrital de Movilidad (District Secretary of Mobility).
In her broad and distinguished professional career, she has worked as general deputy director of Corporate Management at the Instituto de Desarrollo Urbano (Institute of Urban Development (IDU)), Secretary General at the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism; General Secretary, Advisor and Head of the Planning Advisory Office at the Superintendencia de Sociedades ( Superintendency of Companies); Secretary General at the Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio (Superintendence of Industry and Commerce) and in the Ministry of Environment, Territorial Development; head of the Legal Advisory Office at the Radio Televisión Nacional de Colombia (RTVC); and advisor and head of the Contracting Division at the Comisión Nacional de Televisión (National Television Commission).
- Deicy Jaramillo Rivera, delegate director for Territorial Security
She received a law degree from Universidad Gran Colombia, and she majored and received a Master´s degree and majored in criminal law and criminology in Universidad Libre.
She joined the Judicial Branch in 1986 as municipal judge. Later, she worked as judge of mixed jurisdiction and public order judge. In 1992, she joined the Attorney General’s Office, where she worked at the national units against Terrorism, Kidnapping and Drug Trafficking.
She was a prominent prosecutor for the peace process and for the individual and collective reincorporation into civil life, stipulated by Law 975 of 2005 (Justice and Peace). For 20 years, she represented the Attorney General´s Office in the Comité Operativo para la Dejación de las Armas (Operational Committee for Laying Down Arms), monitoring the demobilization process of different illegal armed groups.
As a prosecutor of the Directorate of Support and Analysis of Organized Crime, she created the contexts that allowed the identification of the different criminal dynamics of the extinct paramilitary groups in Huila, Caquetá, and some areas of the country. Her knowledge regarding the origin of FARC and the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)) in Chocó, the Atlantic Coast and the east area of the country, were decisive for the preparation of 62 volumes delivered to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), which describe the criminal actions of these armed organizations.
Working as special director against Human Rights Violations between December 2020 and October 2022, she promoted investigative strategies to impact human smuggling and human trafficking networks, confront environmental crimes, and clarify massacres, disappearances, forced displacements and other crimes against human dignity.
- Gabriel Sandoval Vargas, Delegate Director against Organized Crime
He holds a degree in law majoring in criminal law and forensic sciences at Universidad Católica de Colombia.
His professional life in the Judicial Branch began in 1987, fulfilling some functions of in municipal criminal courts, criminal investigation courts and higher courts.
In 1992, he joined the Attorney General’s Office in the position of deputy clerk of the Unit of Delegate Prosecutors before the Supreme Court of Justice. He occupied the post of profesional universitario, advisor, private secretary and secretary of legal affairs at the office of the Attorney General in different periods of time.
During his broad institutional career, he was a local prosecutor in the Sectional Office in Bogotá, a sectional prosecutor in the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Unit, a prosecutor in the Counter-Terrorism Unit and a special prosecutor in the National Maritime Interdiction Unit (Unaim).
For the last three years he was assigned to the Special Directorate against Drug Trafficking, where he led high-impact operations against transnational drug trafficking and coordinated investigative work with different embassies and international agencies to confront this scourge and its related crimes.
In 2019, Gabriel Fernando Sandoval Vargas was the winner of the Enrique Low Murtra decoration, which is awarded to outstanding public servants.
- Henry Arturo Cruz Vega, director of the Technical Investigative Corps (CTI)
He received his law degree from the Universidad Externado of Colombia, and majored in criminal and criminological sciences. Throughout his professional life he has worked in public entities, organizations for the protection of fundamental rights and preventive control entities.
His professional training, expertise and leadership allowed him to be director of Academia Superior de Inteligencia y Seguridad Pública (Academy of Intelligence and Public Safety) of the former Administrative Department of Security (DAS) where he trained investigators and security personnel.
Henry Arturo Cruz was delegate prosecutor before criminal judges, between 1997 and 199 and he was delegate district inspector in Bogotá. He worked at Personería Distrital de Bogotá and at Autoridad Nacional de Televisión (National Television Authority ANTV) as director of internal control office.
- José Fernando Flórez Ruiz, director of Public Policies and Strategy
He received a law degree from Universidad Externado de Colombia, and a doctorate in political science and a master’s degree in administration and public policy from Université de Paris II Panthéon – Asass.
His professional life was carried out in the academy, the private sector and public entities, by holding different leading positions, strategy, data science, artificial intelligence, public policies, human rights, environmental rights, constitutional law, public international law and criminology.
He has been teaching for 22 years. He has served as a professor in various areas of law at Universidad Externado de Colombia, Universidad Católica de Colombia and Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración (CESA).
Between 2018 and 2019, holding the position of profesional experto for the Directorate of Policies at the Attorney General’s Office, he coordinated the joint work between the Attorney General´s Office and the National Police for the unification of data on crime in the country. He also participated in the reformulation of criteria for the weekly crime census in Colombia.
Later, in 2019, he became director of the Planning Office of the National Registry until 2023.
The information contained in this press release corresponds to the narration of the objective news provided by the officials in charge of carrying out criminal investigations within the Office of the Attorney General. By the time this communication is disclosed, the legal status of the people mentioned is still pending to be resolved by the competent judicial authority, always under the presumption of innocence contemplated by Article 29 of the Political Constitution and Article 7 of Law 906 of 2004.