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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 10:41 AM
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Uribe govt tried to silence me: Ex-paramilitary
Uribe govt tried to silence me: Ex-paramilitary
Tuesday, 22 March 2011 15:53
Tom Heyden

Extradited former AUC commander Ever Veloza, alias "H.H.," has claimed that the government of ex-President Alvaro Uribe pressured him to keep quiet about paramilitary ties to politicians, the military and businessmen.

H.H. said that he was specifically asked to omit the names of the ex-governor of Cauca, Juan Jose Chaux, and General Rito Alejo del Rio in statements he made to the courts about paramilitary links with key officials, El Tiempo reported Tuesday.

The ex-AUC leader also asserted that a 2008 meeting that took place in the presidential palace between Chaux and Antonio "Job" Lopez, the former paramilitary spokesman, was aimed at expediting his extradition so that he could not give a full account to the Colombian courts.

H.H. was extradited to the U.S. in March 2009, although there were complaints at the time that the extradition came too soon for him to complete his collaboration with the Colombian judiciary under the 2005 Justice and Peace Law.

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http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/15073-uribes-govt-tried-to-silence-me-ex-auc-boss-hh.html
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naaman fletcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 01:31 PM
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1. Interesting,
I thought that these guys were extradited to the US precisely so that they would not talk.
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rabs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 10:09 PM
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2. You have not been paying attention


to reporting from Colombia by Semana, El Tiempo, El Espectador, El Colombiano, RCN etc etc. (I assume you are Spanish-language literate.)

Had you done so, you would know that the United States Department of Justice as of last year began allowing federal fiscales from Colombia to interrogate in U.S. prisons the extradited Colombians whisked out by uribe on trumped-up narco-trafficking charges.

Included are the AUC narco-traffickers, interrogations about what they knew of the parapoliticians, the yidis-gate scandal, the DAS-gate, and what did uribe and uribe's inner circle know about all the shit that went on.





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naaman fletcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-11 01:18 PM
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3. Thanks
For the correction, i was not aware of that. My Spanish is ok, but it is not native tongue.
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