Uribe extradited me to keep me silent: AUC paramilitary chief
Uribe extradited me to keep me silent: AUC paramilitary chief
Sep 1, 2014 posted by Emil Foget
The ex-chief of defunct right-wing paramilitary group AUC said Monday he wants to participate in ongoing peace talks with leftist rebel group FARC, and claims that former president Alvaro Uribe extradited him to keep him silent.
Salvatore Mancuso, formerly the head of the now demobilized United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) told El Tiempo on Monday that he was sent to the US to prevent certain truths from coming to light.
“When we started to confess the truths affecting the president Uribe, or people close to him, and high power in high places, that was when he decided to breach the covenants and order our extradition,” Salvatore said in an interview with local newspaper El Tiempo.
In the interview he furthermore stated that the extradition was a mistake, and that his obligation is to tell the truth.
Mancuso was extradited in 2008 and is in prison on charges of drug trafficking, money laundering, and financing terrorism.
Mancuso’s version of events echoes claims by other extradited criminals. In June, a former Colombian drug trafficker and paramilitary financier declared that former Colombia President Alvaro Uribe extradited him to the US to keep him from talking about high-ranking officials with paramilitary ties, according to an interview with W Radio.
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http://colombiareports.co/uribe-extradited-silence-chief-colombias-former-paramilitary-group-auc/
