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Prosecution wants the other Uribe convicted over the other death squad
by Adriaan Alsema November 7, 2019
Santiago Uribe (Image credit: El Tiempo)
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office asked a Medellin court on Wednesday to convict the brother of former President Alvaro Uribe for leading a far-right death squad in the 1990s.
According to the prosecution, it has sufficiently proven testimonies that Santiago Uribe, a.k.a. “El Patron,” formed and led a death squad dedicated to so-called “social cleansing.”
“The 12 Apostles” was led by El Patron and “made up of public and private actors with the purpose of imposing an extermination policy against common criminals” and the “annihilation” “of a significant group of people simply because they belonged to different groups of civil society described as socially undesirable,” according to the prosecutor.
Multiple of the “undesirables” were assassinated at La Carolina, Uribe’s estate in Yarumal, a municipality some 40 miles north of Antioquia.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/prosecution-wants-the-other-uribe-convicted-over-the-other-death-squad/