Venezuela massacre victims likely killed by Colombian neo-paramilitaries: Official

[Judi Lynn]

Venezuela massacre victims likely killed by Colombian neo-paramilitaries: Official
Mar 11, 2014 posted by Luke Horswell

The murder of five Colombians in Venezuela over the weekend is likely the work of the Colombian neo-paramilitary group “Los Urabeños” said Colombia’s Medical Examiner’s Office Tuesday.

The institute’s director Carlos Valdes told Semana magazine that ” the cause of death corresponds, in all five cases, to a bullet passing through the skull,” a modus operandi commonly associated with Los Urabeños, who control most of Colombia’s drug trade along the Caribbean coast into the neighboring country.

Valdes added that the bodies “were in a high state of decomposition…and heavily contamination with sand and earth” so distance of the shootings and gun type were still undetermined.

The bodies of the victims were discovered on Sunday on the banks of the Tachira river near the Venezuelan town of Ureña but had been missing 48 hours previous from their home town of Cucuta on the Colombian side of the border.

More:
http://colombiareports.co/5-venezuela-murders-attributed-colombian-gang/

For anyone interested in earlier information, please see:

5 Colombians murdered in Venezuela
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110827613

[Sunlei]

1. A part of the world where *La Mordita* is still the rule to live by, & people can be paid to-

do anything.

[ChangoLoa]

2. La mordida...

You know this word.. they use it only in Mexico (I think) to describe a bribe. It means "the bite".

[Judi Lynn]

5. There can't be any system uglier than one which pays soldiers

to kill innocent human beings, put weapons in their hands, then pretend they were killed during combat against the military, to deepen the appearance there are many enemies of the state, and reinforce Colombia's appearance as a country hard at war against many leftists, entitling it to continued heavy financing by the men and women taxpayers of the United States.

In the meantime, the right-wing taxpayers of the US bitch and howl about their tax "burden" and try to find ways they can end the lifelines the tax dollars have meant to poor children, poorly paid adults, and homeless war veterans in the States, so many who who live hungry, unclothed, without sufficient medical treatment.

[rdharma]

3. I knew there was more to it ......... Thanks for follow-up. nt

[MinM]

4. Typical modus operandi..

of the right.