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Colombia state bodyguards suspects in 1990 presidential candidate assassination plot
written by Adriaan Alsema March 22, 2017
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office is investigating 15 former state security officials for the 1990 assassination of the presidential candidate they were supposed to protect.
The 15 former bodyguards of now-defunct intelligence agency DAS allegedly helped murder Bernardo Jaramillo of the communist Patriotic Union (UP) party, which went all but extinct after thousands of its leaders and supporters were assassinated.
The UP was formed in 1985 after a peace deal between the government of Belisario Betancur and the FARC that was meant to allow the guerrillas’ and other leftists political inclusion.
Amid conservatives’ accusations the party was nothing but the armed wing of the Marxist FARC guerrillas, Jaramillo sought the inclusion of multiple leftist organization while urging government attention for the ongoing mass assassination of party leaders and supporters.
More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-state-bodyguards-suspects-1990-presidential-candidate-assassination-plot/
