Former senator charged with promoting, financing death squads .
Former senator charged with promoting, financing death squads .
Saturday, 18 August 2012 10:56 Adriaan Alsema
A former Colombian senator on Friday was charged with the promoting and financing of paramilitary groups, held responsible for tens of thousands of human rights violations.
According to the prosecution, there is enough evidence to prove that the U Party member and former ambassador to Peru, Jorge Visbal, met on several occasions with Carlos Castaño, the founder of paramilitary organization AUC.
The then-representative of cattle ranchers has been accused by several of the AUC's top commanders of having supported the paramilitaries' incursion in the north of Colombia.
Former AUC leader Salvatore Mancuso testified before Colombian prosecutors that Visbal had an "identical ideology" to the extreme-right paramilitaries and, on behalf of the cattle ranchers, brought "information and suggestions" to meetings with paramilitary leaders to secure the expansion of paramilitary power in the north of Colombia.
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