https://www.financecolombia.com/declassified-us-state-department-cables-uribe-almost-certainly-had-dealings-with-the-paramilitaries/ Connecting Colombia to the global capital markets, analysts, economists, investors, and executives that matter Thu, 06 May 2021 01:51:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.financecolombia.com/declassified-us-state-department-cables-uribe-almost-certainly-had-dealings-with-the-paramilitaries/#comment-395 Thu, 06 May 2021 01:51:14 +0000 https://www.financecolombia.com/?p=21075#comment-395 […] Close criminal ties — Duque’s political allies have lost credibility. His political godfather, former president and current Senator Alvaro Uribe left office in 2000 hailed as a hero who made Colombia safe from communist guerillas and open to investors and tourists. As the years have gone on however, revelations about human rights abuses during his term, including government massacres of innocent civilians not involved with insurgency have come surfaced, along with evidence from the none other than the US State Department that Uribe, in the US government’s words “almost certainly had dealings with… […]

]]> https://www.financecolombia.com/declassified-us-state-department-cables-uribe-almost-certainly-had-dealings-with-the-paramilitaries/#comment-305 Fri, 25 Sep 2020 09:20:23 +0000 https://www.financecolombia.com/?p=21075#comment-305 […] President Alvaro Uribe is under house arrest. This recipient of the U. S. Medal of Freedom and collaborator with drug traffickers and murderous paramilitaries is accused of complicity in three paramilitary […]

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