08 September 2011

COLOMBIA: Jailed Para Chief Claims Ex-Prez Uribe Sponsored Group.

                                         GUARDIAN/ AP

     Jailed paramilitary chief Pablo Hernan Sierra claims former President Alvaro Uribe sponsored his armed group in the mid-1990s...when Uribe was governor of Antioquia.
     Uribe has long denied any connection to the paras.
     But a former policeman has also said that Uribe's brother, Santiago, ran a death squad there in the 1990's... that killed at least 50 people.