Medellin court orders Congress, Supreme Court to charge Uribe for paramilitary ties

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Colombia Reports

Medellin court orders Congress, Supreme Court to charge Uribe for paramilitary ties
posted by Adriaan Alsema
Sep 6, 2013

The Supreme tribunal of Colombia’s second largest city Medellin said on Thursday that it will order Congress and the country’s Supreme Court to formally charge ex-President Alvaro Uribe for ties to paramilitary groups.

Magistrate Ruben Dario Pinilla of the court’s Penal Chamber said that testimonies given before the court by seven former members of paramilitary organization AUC, victims and witnesses provide enough merit for a formal accusation for “parapolitics,” or the use of paramilitary forces for political gain.

According to Pinilla, the testimonies corroborate the hypothesis that the controversial former president promoted and helped strengthen the paramilitary groups from when he was governor of the Antioquia department (1995-1997) until after he had assumed the presidency in 2002.

The magistrate said that the political support for the AUC, to whom tens of thousands of human rights violations are attributed, “became an established policy” under Uribe that was “sponsored, permitted and facilitated by the high command of the Armed Forces.”

Read more: http://colombiareports.co/medellin-court-orders-congress-supreme-court-charge-uribe-paramilitary-ties/

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[Coyotl]

1. K&R

[Peace Patriot]

2. Is the CIA jettisoning Uribe?

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What next? Indictment of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld in Colombia???

Could happen. Cuz that scum was acting for our scum.

I figured Panetta cleaned that trail up, but we'll see. I think he cleaned up Jr.'s trail in the context of an internal war, within the U.S. "military-industrial/fake democracy complex": Rumsfeld/Cheney vs the CIA. Basically, curtailment of Rumsfeld/Cheney as to nuking Iran, with "impeachment off the table" to get them to stand down, but then "the Deal" had to be monitored and enforced within the CIA and the Pentagon and within the Obama administration. This, I fancy, was Panetta's commission from Bush Sr's "Iraq Study Group" (more aptly named "Iran Study Group&quot , of which Panetta was a member--why the CIA welcomed this alleged "novice" with open arms; why he then jumped over to the Pentagon. His main goal was stopping the internal war that Rumsfeld-Cheney had started, but that would necessarily include covering up the Bush Junta's grosser crimes, and that would include the Bush Junta's grosser crimes in Colombia (such as using the U.S. "war on drugs" for getting control of its trillions of dollars in illicit revenue; using Colombia for training death squads for other war theaters; helping Uribe draw up hit lists of trade unionists and others, mass murder and brutal and massive displacement of five million peasant farmers as prep for U.S. "free trade for the rich).

The curious bit about Santos coming out publicly for the complete legalization of drugs may hold the key to these events. Panetta personally vetted and approved Santos as president of Colombia, after he yanked Bush's mafia boss, Uribe, from the stage (--albeit landing him on a "silk cushion&quot . Legalization has to be a Big Pharma/Big Ag/Big Chem plan. But maybe it ALSO includes the CIA going legit, as to that particular source of funding. In which case they've got to jettison Uribe.

I did sort of predict that he might get jettisoned. He is a rather nasty article and he's all for the "war on drugs." Best mafia plan ever, for eliminating your rivals, at U.S. taxpayers' expense. Totally, totally corrupt, in the Bush Junta's hands. So maybe this is the only way out of that quagmire of Bush Junta crimes in Colombia: legalize it, GMO-ize it, monopolize and corporatize it and rake in the trillions in profit while kind of looking like "good guys."

I suppose that the visible items of Panetta's cleanup (the things that we were able to see, sort of--such as the removal of Uribe's spy chief, Maria Hurtado, to Panama, likely with CIA/Panetta help, and the midnight extraditions of the death squad witnesses to the U.S., with Bush Junta's fixer, William Brownfield's collusion) and other such actions that we couldn't even see the tip of, make it possible, now, for Colombian prosecutors to pursue Uribe without stumbling over those who were directing and enabling his many crimes. Colombian prosecutors and judges--though they, too, were being spied upon and threatened--are nevertheless part of the power elite in Colombia and probably don't want to endanger U.S./Colombia "free trade for the rich"; i.e., would prefer to look the other way on U.S./Bush Junta crimes. And if their noses aren't rubbed right in it, they will avoid indicting Uribe's U.S. masters.

Anyway, Uribe could lead to Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. And it'll sure be interesting to see how this plays out (prosecution of Uribe).

[Judi Lynn]

3. He will fight like a maniac to keep from being held responsible

for his multitude of crimes against the human race, but it's doubtful he can sidestep being sacrificed if the US decides he's more trouble than he's worth, like Noriega. So many ways he's totally vulnerable by now, too many people know where the bodies are buried.