Harold Bedoya Pizarro (December 30, 1938 in Cali, Colombia – May 2, 2017 in Hospital Militar de Bogota) was a general and commander of the Colombian National Army.
In the 2002 elections, Bedoya once again participated as a presidential candidate and ran against Horacio Serpa, Luis Eduardo Garzón, Noemí Sanín, Álvaro Uribe and Íngrid Betancourt.
General Bedoya was criticized during the later years of his military career for his past attendance at the School of the Americas, as a number of its graduates have committed human rights violations.
[8][9][10][11][12][13] Bedoya's service in the Batallón Único de Inteligencia y Contrainteligencia (English: Battalion of Intelligence and Counterintelligence) (BINCI) of the Colombian National Army has been linked to the activities of the Anticommunist American Alliance (Spanish: Alianza Americana Anticomunista) (AAA).
[14] Then-Lieutenant Colonel Bedoya was mentioned in an open letter published on November 29, 1980, by the Mexican newspaper El Día, in which five individuals identified as former Colombian military detail a number of activities carried out by BINCI personnel operating as Triple A.
[15] Bedoya was criticized for filing slander charges against Father Javier Giraldo, the director of the Intercongregational Commission for Justice and Peace (Spanish: Comisión Intercongregacional de Justicia y Paz).