Former intelligence executive gave workshops to Colombia paramilitaries: Ex-AUC chief
Former intelligence executive gave workshops to Colombia paramilitaries: Ex-AUC chief
posted by Adriaan Alsema
Nov 22, 2013
A former executive of Colombia’s now-defunct intelligence agency DAS on several occasions gave courses and masterclasses to members of the demobilized paramilitary umbrella organization AUC, the former paramilitary leader testified Thursday.
Former AUC leader Salvatore Mancuso, now in prison in the United States for drug trafficking, told a Colombian court that the DAS’ former deputy director Jose Miguel Narvaez on several occasions held workshops in camps of the paramilitaries who terrorized Colombia between the 1980s and their eventual demobilization in 2006.
Narvaez is on trial for his ties to the AUC following the revelation of a number of scandals that involved the 1999 killing of popular journalist and comedian Jaime Garzon, and the illegal wiretapping of the Supreme Court, journalists, human rights organizations and opposition politicians — all deemed inconvenient for the administration of former President Alvaro Uribe, who is also investigated for his alleged ties to the AUC.
According to Mancuso, the former DAS official was a personal friend of Carlos Castaño, the founder of the AUC who was killed in 2004. It was Castaño who ordered his men to attend the workshops given to the paramilitaries by Narvaez, he said.
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