1984 documents suggest drug link to Uribe family (Bush ally)

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald

1984 documents suggest drug link to Uribe family
A justice minister -- later assassinated -- complained in the 1980s that drug dealing had infiltrated politics, possibly even the Uribe family, documents showed.

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BY GERARDO REYES
El Nuevo Herald
Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, Colombia's former justice minister who led a campaign against drug trafficking in the 1980s, once said President Alvaro Uribe and his father were models of how Colombian society had been infiltrated by drug dealers, according to legal documents obtained by El Nuevo Herald.

In a sworn declaration made in 1984, Lara Bonilla's sister declared that he had cited the case of a helicopter that had been captured in a huge cocaine laboratory in the south of Colombia that, according to government information, was owned by the president's father, Alberto Uribe Sierra. He had made the statement just weeks before his assassination by ''sicarios'' from the Medellín Cartel.

President Uribe has denied any wrongdoing by either himself or his father and family, saying that the helicopter had been sold a month before the seizure. But there is no document showing the transfer of the chopper in the aeronautics registry.

Lara Bonilla's son and Colombia's current anticorruption czar, Rodrigo Lara Restrepo, told El Nuevo Herald that neither he nor his brothers had read the files of his father, who was killed in April 1984.



Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/339249.html

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Alvaro Uribe and his American driver.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Colombia`s Pugnacious Uribe in New Wiretap Scandal

Colombia`s Pugnacious Uribe in New Wiretap Scandal
Opposition leaders said Uribe must answer for the wiretap, but officials insisted on Monday he had nothing to do with it.
(Published: December 10, 2007 23:45h)

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is under pressure in a new wiretapping scandal after he was recorded threatening to punch a disgraced former advisor in the face for his role in a corruption scandal.

The conversation was taped last year on a line in Uribe's office, where he discusses matters of state and the operations of a government that receives billions of dollars in U.S. military and economic aid.

"I am furious with you and I hope someone is recording this call!" Uribe shouted at Luis Fernando Herrera, a one-time aide accused by a suspected drug lord of asking for $15 million in exchange for pulling strings to help him avoid extradition.

"If I see you I am going to punch you in the face!" Uribe yelled.
(snip)

Colombia's national police commander was forced to resign in May after revelations that officers had illegally wiretapped state officials, opposition politicians and journalists.
(snip)

He remains popular despite a scandal in which some of his closest political allies have been jailed and are awaiting trial on charges they used right-wing death squads to intimidate voters into supporting them.
(snip/)

http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=105479

[Peace Patriot]

3. "He remains popular...". I'm begining to wonder who the pollsters poll in Colombia.

Can't be the thousands of union organizers, workers, peasant farmers and political leftists offed by Uribe and pals. They're dead. No cell phones to Heaven.

Can't be the tens of thousands of workers, peasant farmers, union and community organizers, political leftists, poverty-stricken indigenous, and others who have few or no telephones, and live in shantytowns and remote rural areas, where Washington DC P.R. firms never tread.

Maybe they just poll the Bush White House. Uribe's very popular there.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Just saw an article on this very subject the other day. I'll see if I can't run it down.

I imagine it IS the White House they're polling.



Uribe and his pre-emptive shadow.

[Peace Patriot]

2. Are we seeing a "turn of the worm" at the Miami Herald?

Isn't this the kind of news report they used to get kneecapped for--and don't tend to do any more?

In any case, if the Miami Herald is reporting something like this--in a very, VERY hot political atmosphere, with Donald Rumsfeld wanting a "free trade" agreement with Colombia, as a launching pad for economic war on the Andes democracies (Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador--all rich in oil and gas)*--and Congressional Democrats, for once, defying (or at least slowing up) Bush Junta schemes for thievery, death and destruction ("free trade" with Colombia)--you gotta figure something's up. Uribe is the key to billions of U.S. tax dollars, funneled into U.S. military and police state activities in South America, in support of global corporate predator profits (and god knows what else). And the Miami Herald is actually reporting on what legal documents say about him? Is it raining frogs yet?


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*Rumsfeld: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/30/AR2007113001800.html

Discussion here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x323889

[Peace Patriot]

4. Bush Junta drugs/weapons trafficking, and the "Murder Inc." they have turned

the U.S. "war on drugs" into, in South and Central America, is going to be one of the biggest scandals that gets exposed--if we ever get our country back.

The U.S. "war on drugs" was bad enough as it was. Can you imagine what seven years of Bushites in charge of it has done? The worst we can imagine ain't the half of it. That's my suspicion. As with the torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and other medieval dungeons they have set up around the world, the horror is not going to be what they did to "keep us safe," but rather that they did it FOR PROFIT.