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Former Colombia ambassador admits to turning government into mafia racket
Former ambassador Salvador Arana and former President Alvaro Uribe (Screenshot: YouTube)
by Adriaan Alsema July 19, 2021
Colombia’s former ambassador to Chile admitted before the war crimes tribunal he ransacked his native province and terrorized locals to advance his political career.
Former Ambassador Salvador Arana sent a shockwave through Sucre after exposing the alleged terrorist activity of more than two dozen businessmen, politicians and police officials from the Caribbean province.
According to Arana, his private death squad threatened to kill locals in 1999 if they didn’t cooperate in one of his rackets to ransack the regional healthcare system.
The locals initially were forced to sign up for healthcare insurance with a befriended company and subsequently claim they had undergone treatment at the hospital run by another friend.
The racket allowed Arana to finance his death squad, which forced locals to vote for the warlord in the 2000 elections that made him governor in 2001.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/north-colombia-governor-admits-turning-government-into-a-terrorist-organization/
(It's good to remember, looking at the photo of Arana and former President Uribe, that Arana is not the only murderous monster in the picture.)