Paramilitary warlord confirms Colombian ex-general leaked to drug traffickers .

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Colombia Reports

Paramilitary warlord confirms Colombian ex-general leaked to drug traffickers .
Thursday, 19 July 2012 09:00 Katharina Wecker

Another extradited paramilitary commander testified against the former security adviser of ex-President Alvaro Uribe, who has been accused of working with drug trafficking organizations, local media reported Thursday.

Former AUC commander Francisco Zuluaga Lindo, alias "Gordolindo", told Colombian prosecutors former National Police General Mauricio Santoyo received close to $300,000 for warning members of the crime syndicate, Oficina de Envigado, about a police raid.

Gordolindo, who is serving 20 years in a Florida jail for drug trafficking, claimed Santoyo also collaborated with former paramilitary leader Diego Fernando Murillo Bejarano, alias "Don Berna", who ran both the crime syndicate, Oficina de Envigado, and two blocs of the paramilitary group, the AUC, at various times, reported Radio Caracol Thursday.

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While allegedly being a paramilitary informant, Santoyo served as security advisor to former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe during his first administration between 2002 and 2006.

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[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Why don't the people busy bashing Chavez at every opportunity...

...ever have anything to say about all the nasty shit in Colombia?

Massacres, massive internal refugee flows, corruption, killing civilians and calling them FARC, massive defoliation with pesticides...but nevermind all that, Chavez is horrible.

There seems to be a double standard on DU even bigger than HRW's.

[Judi Lynn]

2. You noticed, too! This tells us all we need to know about character, or the lack of it. n/t

[bemildred]

3. Ya think?

Ya think those drug cartels can do what they do without the military looking the other way?