Colombian official's brothers implicated in wrongdoing (ties to death squads)

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald

Colombian official's brothers implicated in wrongdoing
A former paramilitary leader has alleged misconduct by two brothers of Colombia's attorney general.
Posted on Sat, Feb. 02, 2008
BY GONZALO GUILLEN
El Nuevo Herald

BOGOTA -- The brothers of Colombia's attorney general allowed outlawed paramilitary fighters in 2005 to use the vehicles of a provincial public hospital one of them heads, a former paramilitary leader has told prosecutors.

Rodolfo Enrique Guevara Cantillo, former No. 2 in the Northern Bloc of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, made the allegations against Angel Maya and Hernán Maya, both brothers of Attorney General Edgardo Maya.

Documents and recordings to which El Nuevo Herald had access showed Guevara named Angel Maya, a physician who heads the hospital in Valledupar, and Hernán Maya, a prosecutor with the Superior Court in the city 525 miles northeast of Bogotá.
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The documents on file with the prosecution show Guevara alleged that in 2005 Angel Maya allowed the paramilitaries to use ambulances to transport wounded fighters, weapons and other supplies. He added that at the doctor's request, paramilitary gunmen threatened to kill two physicians at the Pumarejo Hospital who were promoting a labor strike.
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Another of the attorney general's brothers, Jaime Blanco Maya, was charged in 2001 with participating in the murder of two labor union leaders at the Colombian branch of Drummond, a U.S. company that has a coal mine near Valledupar. His case is still pending.




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_Bush's friend, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has called the Miami reporter a liar, and the reporter/liar fled the country. Colombia is a dangerous country for journalists, many have been murdered, and the ones who remain there freely admit they self-censor.

http://www.coltevision.com.nyud.net:8090/dartagnan/images/invitados/maya_edgardo_1.jpg

Uribe's Attny. Gen. Edgardo Maya, President Alvaro Uribe



President Alvaro Uribe and his American friend.

[Joanne98]

1. Good work Judi. Stay on these creeps.

[bemildred]

2. Gosh, what a surprise. nt

[Peace Patriot]

3. Billions of our tax dollars to this fascist Colombian regime, thru Bushite fingers--

--for guns, bullets, tanks, uniforms, helicopters and other firepower, to slaughter union organizers, community leaders, small peasant farmers, political leftists, human rights workers and journalists. Donald Rumsfeld wants Colombia to be the launching pad for economic and military warfare on neighboring and nearby democracies that have a lot of oil and other resources, and leftist governments that think the country's resources should be used to bootstrap the poor, and to enhance the region with cooperative development. (Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina.) This is why they ignore Colombia's brutal fascism, and slander Hugo Chavez, a president who has harmed no one, and who has huge popular support in Venezuela and among other regional leaders and peoples.

"The Smart Way to Beat Tyrants Like Chávez," by Donald Rumsfeld, 12/1/07
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/30/AR2007113001800.html

And we thought Rumsfeld was "retired"!