Uribe is ‘Colombia’s best-ever president’ say neo-paramilitaries in mass death threat
Source: Colombia Reports
Uribe is ‘Colombia’s best-ever president’ say neo-paramilitaries in mass death threat
Oct 23, 2014 posted by Craig Corbett
Neo-paramilitary group the “Aguilas Negras” sent a death threat to 99 human rights workers and politicians, while praising Colombia’s “best-ever president,” Senator Alvaro Uribe.
In the letter 99 people are named, including 35 woman from various human rights and social welfare organizations, NGOs and political parties. The letter was sent directly to Corporation Nuevo Arco Iris, a Colombian conflict analyst group on Wednesday afternoon.
Previous threats from Aguilas Negras have been received via human rights group Redepaz.
The letter explicitly threatened Senator Ivan Cepeda, who the group claimed be an enemy of the people and of Uribe, who they viewed as the best Colombian president ever.
“It is high time that we help those Communists pigs, who have screwed our country, to retire from politics and save their pig lives, people like Ivan Cepeda, notorious for persecuting and slandering the best president of Colombia of all times, Alvaro Uribe,” the letter signed by the Central Command of the Aguilas Negras said.
Read more: http://colombiareports.co/neo-paramilitaries-say-uribe-best-president-ever-yet-another-death-threat-human-rights-defenders/
The U.S. has poured over nine billion dollars into Colombia's government and military since 2000. Largest foreign aid recipient outside the Middle East.
Ivan Cepeda's father, also a Colombia senator was assassinated by Colombian right-wing henchmen.
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I would suggest to any conscientious person looking for the truth about a man treated as a great US ally (until his Supreme Court (upon whom he spied) ruled he couldn't run for the presidency again) even receiving from George W. Bush the US Medal of Freedom, you could gain a far CLEARER picture, not to mention far more honest view from diving right into the internet for research on Uribe's paramilitary ties, which go back for decades and decades.
The paramilitaries (death squads) have been proven in court, through trials already completed, to have had deep ties throughout to Colombian politicians, and most certainly to the Colombian military, operating as a proxy militia, even doing massacres jointly with the Colombian military, as per testimonies. Some of the witnesses have been assassinated since their testimonies. The paras were said to have been "demobilized" yet even paramilitary leaders (war lord narcotraffickers, huge time killers) have indicated there was chicanery involved and a lot of acting. Even high-ranking Colombian government officials have been tried and convicted for their part in pulling off these charades showing demobilization exercises of turning in weapons, etc.
As human rights groups such as Amnesty have all said, the paras have been responsible not only for the larger scale narcotrafficking, they have committed the "lion's share" of the massacres, extreme violence in Colombia. After they seemed to "demobilize," they simply regrouped into more groups, smaller groups, and renamed themselves with names like "Rastropos" and "Aguilas Negras" (Black Eagles).
Don't take anyone's word for it, please start your search for the truth on what has been happening in Colombia. It's a very long, violent, hideous road which only now may be starting to lead to peace, FINALLY, under President Juan Manuel Santos. It has been constant violence since the great upheaval after a great progressive Presidential candidate was assassinated, and it kicked off a decade known as "La Violencia" long ago.
Teflon President? Noose Tightens around Uribe as Former Death Squad Leaders Spill the Beans
by Tom Burghardt / October 21st, 2012
Last month’s capture of Colombian drug lord Daniel “El Loco” Barrera by Venezuelan police was hailed as a “victory” in the “war on drugs.”
Barrera, accused of smuggling some 900 tons of cocaine into Europe and the U.S. throughout his infamous career, was described by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who announced the arrest on national television, as “the last of the great capos.”
But what of the “capo” who enjoyed high office, is wined and dined by U.S. corporations and conservative think-tanks, owns vast tracks of land, is a “visiting scholar” at a prominent American university (Georgetown) and now sits on the Board of Directors of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation?
When will they be brought to ground?
A Family Affair
To clarify the questions above, one need look no further than the kid-gloves approach taken by the media when it comes to former Colombian President, the U.S. “Presidential Medal of Freedom” recipient Álvaro Uribe.
Accused by human rights organizations over his role in the forced disappearance of thousands of Colombians during two terms in office (2002-2010), Uribe may still land in the dock as a result of ongoing investigations by Colombia’s Supreme Court into official corruption, drug trafficking and mass murder.
Recent arrests by Colombian authorities and revelations by the president’s former allies however, are beginning to draw a circle around Uribe and the U.S. secret state in some of the hemisphere’s worst human rights abuses of previous decades.
More:
http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/10/teflon-president-noose-tightens-around-uribe-as-former-death-squad-leaders-spill-the-beans/
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