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which appeared on him in a Department of Defense report in 1991 has been around for years, it just hasn't gotten any traction with major corporate media, who have steadily ignored it.
For one reason or another, a reporter at the Miami Herald's Spanish newspaper, El Nuevo Herald, has been doing investigations on Uribe in and out of Colombia. This is hard to figure out, as the Miami Herald has been wildly right-wing in almost everything coming from them for AGES. Hard right-wing spin. Hard right-wing constituency, the Miami original Batistiano Cuban "exiles" and their progeny moved directly to Miami as soon as the revolution was completed, to start their all out hate industry, including decades of terrorism against the island running right up to the present.
They have always supported ALL right-wing parties, Presidents in Latin America, and have always been death to leftists.
Why El Nuevo is doing any negative reports on Uribe is a deep, deep mystery.
I think it was also the same reporter who uncovered personal information on Uribe from the ex-mistress of Pablo Escobar, who put out a book, in which she claimed Uribe was tight with Escobar, and that Escobar told her that it was because of Uribe's work fixing things with Colombia's aviation laws that the drug traffickers were able to start building their own air strips, and that if it hadn't been for Uribe, they would probably have ended up having to swim to the US with the dope personally.
Escobar was high on Uribe, according to this woman. She included lots of additional background in her book. I believe the reporter may have assisted her in writing the book. At some point Uribe started going after the reporter who then went into hiding, and was "on the run."
I may be able later to look up more info. on this, but a lot of information started flowing around the time the reporter published his material in the last couple of years. What actually took place to prompt him to start doing this NOW instead of long ago, however, is still unknown. It most clearly wouldn't have been done if a decision had not been made at much higher levels that this was going to be o.k., as the U.S. corporate media has steadfastly turned its head, looked the other way, and stonewalled ALL information concerning the grotesque state of human rights abuse, the death squads, the torture, and massacres of union workers, indigenous people, Afro-Colombians, simple farmers, human rights activists, all leftists, etc., the chain saw massacres of entire villages, the mass graves, the flight of journalists from the country, the death threats to the ones remaining, and the acknowledged self-censorship of the journalists IN Colombia, as admitted to foreign journalists after so many of their collegues have been assassinated, sometimes after being targeted publicly, named, excoriated, called out by Álvaro Uribe in person prior to their murders.
As DU's fantastic poster Peace Patriot has written time after time, something IS up regarding Colombia, from all appearances to people who've been watching. Just haven't been able to pin it down exactly.
No doubt there will be a better answer for you if Peace Patriot sees your post.
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