‘Uribe’s former business partner, chief of staff helped create paramilitary death squad’
Uribes former business partner, chief of staff helped create paramilitary death squad
Apr 22, 2014 posted by Adriaan Alsema
An assassinated rancher with business ties to former President Alvaro Uribe financed the formation of the Bloque Metro paramilitary group in coordination with the then-governors chief of staff, a demobilized paramilitary commander testified.
The alleged meeting
Luis Alberto Villegas (L) and Pedro Juan Moreno
According to Ever Veloza, locally better known as HH, he met up with Uribes then-chief of staff, Pedro Juan Moreno, at a paramilitary-run car dealer across the street from the armys 4th Brigade in southwest Medellin in 1996.
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However, Uribe is not the only politician with alleged ties to paramilitary death squads; More than 45 former congressmen and six former governors are imprisoned for having sought political gain through deals with illegal armed groups. 140 more former congressmen have criminal investigations pending.
FACT SHEET: Parapolitics
HH and 13 other paramilitary leaders were extradited without court order by the Uribe administration in 2008 at the height of the parapolitics scandal. The mass extradition was fiercely criticized by the Supreme Court, the Prosecutor General, human rights organizations and victims, some of who claimed the government was trying to prevent the paramilitaries from revealing more ties to Colombias political elites.
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http://colombiareports.co/uribes-former-business-partner-chief-staff-helped-create-paramilitary-death-squad/