Colombian paramilitaries financed Uribe's reelection: Mancuso
Source: Colombia Reports
Colombian paramilitaries financed Uribe's reelection: Mancuso
Friday, 11 May 2012 10:26
Christan Leonard
Extradited leader of the AUC paramilitary group Salvatore Mancuso said the 2006 reelection of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was financed by paramilitaries.
In an interview with Caracol Radio, Mancuso revealed that he worked with Uribe’s advisor, Jairo Andres Angarita, to give financial and logistical support to Uribe’s 2006 reelection campaign.
The infiltration of paramilitary groups into Colombian politics has become popularly known as "parapolitics". Former president Alvaro Uribe and dozens of his former officials have been implicated before, but this is the first time that Mancuso, once the most powerful paramilitary leader in the country, directly implicated the former president.
“In the reelection of President Uribe, I gave input to commander Andres and hired buses so they could promote propaganda and move people for Uribe’s campaign,” said Mancuso from his U.S. jail cell.
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Surely this death squad leader/narcotrafficker/war lord is kidding, right? George W Bush's ally, Alvaro Uribe, to whom he gave the U.S. Medal of Freedom would never have done any of the things all these people are saying!
