Uribe founded paramilitary group: ex-paramilitary leader (former Colombian President) [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Colombia Reports

Uribe founded paramilitary group: ex-paramilitary leader
Wednesday, 07 September 2011 18:38
Jian Li Zheng

A Colombian congressman filed charges against Alvaro Uribe Wednesday because, according to the testimony of a demobilized paramilitary leader, the former President was one of the founders of a well-known paramilitary group in the time Uribe was governor in his home department Antioquia.

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After filing charges, Cepeda distributed the recorded statement of ex-paramilitary Pablo Hernan Sierra Garcia, alias "Alberto Guerrero," in which the former leader of the Cacique Pipinta Bloc points out that the paramilitary group used one of Uribe's estates as their base of operations.

Uribe's brother Santiago Uribe, businessman Luis Alberto Villegas Uribe and his brother, deputy Juan Guillermo Villegas Uribe, as well as paramilitary businessman Santiago Gallon Henao were co-founders of the now-defunct Bloque Metro, said the former paramilitary.

According to Sierra, the paramilitary group used Uribe's farmhouse "Guacharacas" as the home base from where the group committed massacres and forcefully displaced locals.


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