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Eugene

(61,949 posts) Mon Feb 29, 2016, 05:26 PM Feb 2016

Brother of Colombian ex-president arrested as alleged death squad leader

Source: The Guardian

The brother of Colombia’s former president Álvaro Uribe has been arrested on charges that he created and led a death squad known as the Twelve Apostles, which was responsible for dozens of murders in the province of Antioquia.

Santiago Uribe was arrested on Monday in the upscale neighbourhood of El Poblado despite efforts by his security detail to block his detention.

Uribe, the younger brother of the former president, has denied that he was involved in either the death squad or the murders that witnesses said were planned at the Uribe family ranch in the town of Yarumal in the 1990s.

The main witness against Uribe is a former police officer Juan Carlos Meneses who is under investigation for participating in the crimes attributed to the Twelve Apostles and who has identified Uribe as one of the leaders of the group which aimed to neutralize leftwing guerrillas in the region.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/29/colombia-president-alvaro-uribe-brother-charged-death-squad

Sibylla Brodzinsky in Bogotá
Monday 29 February 2016 20.57 GMT

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Brother of Colombian ex-president arrested as alleged death squad leader (Original Post) Eugene Feb 2016 OP

Hope he won't slip out of it again. This family is treacherous, and powerful. Judi Lynn Feb 2016 #1

Another U.S. foreign policy success story. ozone_man Feb 2016 #2

Ex-president's brother arrested in Colombia death squad case Judi Lynn Mar 2016 #3

The noose tightens around Alvaro Uribe (Bush jr-Rumsfeld operative). Peace Patriot Mar 2016 #4

Judi Lynn

(160,630 posts)

1. Hope he won't slip out of it again. This family is treacherous, and powerful.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Feb 29, 2016, 05:41 PM

Feb 2016

They've known about him and the President and their father for decades, and no one did anything about it.

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ozone_man

(4,825 posts)

2. Another U.S. foreign policy success story.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Feb 29, 2016, 08:27 PM

Feb 2016

Death squads are us it seems.

Judi Lynn

(160,630 posts)

3. Ex-president's brother arrested in Colombia death squad case

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 02:42 AM

Mar 2016

Ex-president's brother arrested in Colombia death squad case
Feb 29, 9:08 PM EST

By LIBARDO CARDONA
Associated Press

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- The brother of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was arrested Monday on allegations he was involved in murders and forced disappearances while helping form a far-right death squad in the 1990s.

Santiago Uribe has long denied any involvement in killings attributed by a former police captain to a group known as the "12 Apostles." It allegedly plotted dozens of slayings from an Uribe family cattle ranch in northern Antioquia state.

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Retired police Maj. Juan Carlos Meneses said in a 2010 interview with The Associated Press that as the head of police in the town of Yarumal starting in 1994, he received monthly payments from the "12 Apostles" group to look the other way as it murdered around 50 drug addicts, thieves and cattle rustlers in the area.

He said Santiago Uribe ran the death squad from the La Carolina ranch using short-wave radios and that he once saw 15 uniformed paramilitaries with R-15 and AK-47 rifles at the ranch doing physical training on an obstacle course.

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Peace Patriot

(24,010 posts)

4. The noose tightens around Alvaro Uribe (Bush jr-Rumsfeld operative).

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 03:13 AM

Mar 2016

That's another thing I despise about Establishment Democrats: "we need to look forward not backward" (on the crimes of the rich and powerful).

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