Hiya again
Today I want to draw your attention to a background article on the scandalously high likelihood that the Colombian government has long been intimately connected with right-wing death squads.
See Le Monde diplomatique (English), June 2007, pp. 6-7. Available to subscribers at http://www.mondediplo.com
Here's the lead of Launce Mazure's article, "Colombia: the dead bear witness":
"Colombia has been shaken by a series of revelations that have linked leading politicians and businessmen to death squads run by the rightwing United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia. The opposition has now accused President Alvaro Uribe of contacts with the paramilitaries."
Personally, I have very good reason to believe that the current president of Colombia is corrupt, fascist, power hungry, despotic and dangerous because he's also very intelligent and has managed not only to change the constitution to gain another four-year term of office but also to evade probing into election frauds by manipulating local community leaders into voting for him well before any election monitors arrived in the country. What I have heard of his years as governor of Antioquia makes me think of him as a cold-blooded criminal. He may not have blood on his hands personally, but I am certain that he pulled the strings behind many assassinations and atrocities. I am hoping that someone will soon arraign him and drag him into an international court. The sad thing is that the EU has fallen prey to his sweet talking and does not see beyond the wealthy areas of Bogotá.
Plenty more information on Colombia (parapolitics, drugs, human rights) is available, for example, at
http://www.askonline.ch (in German only, but with lots of links to Spanish and English-language sites)
http://www.peacebrigades.org
http://www.humanrightswatch.org/doc/?t=americas
http://www.tni.org -> issues -> Colombia
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