[2] While living in Colombia, he was accused of supporting José María Córdova's revolt against Simón Bolívar along the minister plenipotentiary and future president of the United States, William H.
[4][9] He was substituted the following year by Colonel Pablo Obregón, a veteran of the Army of the Three Guarantees, and transferred to South America, where he was appointed chargé d'affaires of Mexico to Colombia.
[8] Torrens arrived to Colombia with his secretary, Colonel Ignacio Basadre[10] —former agent of Vicente Guerrero in the Caribbean[11]— through the port of La Guaira.
[8] They stayed for five years in the country and both sympathized with Vice President Francisco de Paula Santander but deeply distrusted South American liberator Simón Bolívar, who had been declared president-for-life with the power to select a successor by the 1828 Constitution.
[12] Torrens believed Bolívar had expansionist ambitions and antagonized with republican ideals,[8][13][14] and that same year he was accused, along both the minister plenipotentiary and future president of the United States, William H. Harrison, and the British consul, James Herderson, of supporting a revolt organized by General José María Córdova.