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He received the Prince of Asturias Peace Award of Spain in 1983.
The award category is wrong. In 1983 Betancur received the Prince of Asturias Award for Latin-American Cooperation, later renamed International Cooperation, not a Peace Award.
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The official Princess of Asturias Foundation page for Belisario Betancur identifies his 1983 prize as the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation. The same page explains that in 1983 the jury actually granted him the Prince of Asturias Award for Latin-American Cooperation, and that this category was only later renamed International Cooperation in 1989.
So the article is incorrect to call it the Peace Award. The official award record does not list Betancur as the Peace laureate for 1983; it places him in the cooperation category instead.
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- Belisario Betancur - Fundación Princesa de Asturias
Belisario Betancur Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation 1983 ... The members of the Jury for the 1983 Prince of Asturias Award for Latin-American Cooperation ... have agreed unanimously to grant this award to His Excellency Belisario Betancur ... *From 1989 onwards, this Award was renamed the Award for International Cooperation.
Most Supreme Court Justices were killed when M-19 commandos and the Army fought for control of the building
This overstates the toll on the Supreme Court. Contemporary and official sources say 11 magistrates were killed—about half of the court, not 'most' of it.
Full reasoning
The claim says "Most Supreme Court Justices were killed" during the Palace of Justice siege. The available source material does not support that wording.
A current official microsite of Colombia's Supreme Court says that after the siege, the justice minister confirmed the death of the president of the Supreme Court and 10 other magistrates—that is, 11 magistrates in total.
A contemporaneous UPI report described the dead as Supreme Court President Alfonso Reyes and 11 other justices of the 24-member high court. That means 12 of 24 if counting Reyes separately in the UPI wording, or 11 magistrates in the Supreme Court's own retrospective count. Either way, the number is around half of the court, not clearly most of it.
Because the article uses a stronger claim than the cited historical counts support, the wording is inaccurate.
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- Holocausto-corte-suprema-de-justicia - Corte Suprema de Justicia
Pasada la 1:00 p.m. del jueves 7 de noviembre, el entonces ministro de Justicia, Enrique Parejo González, confirma la muerte del presidente de la Corte Suprema de Justicia y otros 10 magistrados.
- Dream of peace shattered in bloody 27-hour siegeUPI Special Report - UPI Archives
As many as 100 people -- including Supreme Court President Alfonso Reyes and 11 other justices of the 24-member high court -- died during the siege that ended Thursday.
His administration began the exploration and export of coal in the Cerrejón North region
This gets Cerrejón’s timeline wrong. Export shipments began during Betancur’s presidency, but the exploration stage started earlier, in 1977, before he took office.
Full reasoning
Cerrejón’s own published history does not place the start of exploration in Belisario Betancur’s administration.
According to Cerrejón’s sustainability report, the Cerrejón North Zone contract was signed in 1976 and the project had three stages: exploration (1977–1980), construction (1981–1986), and production (1986–2009). The same timeline says the first early coal shipment was sent in 1985.
Betancur was president from 1982 to 1986, so it is accurate to associate his administration with the beginning of exports, but not with the beginning of exploration, which had already started years earlier.
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- Cerrejón Sustainability Report 2009
This contract considers three stages: exploration (1977-1980), construction (1981-1986), and production (1986-2009). ... 1985. The first early coal shipment (33,000 tonnes) was sent on the ship Giovanni, destination Denmark.