Uribe involved in DAS, paramilitary conspiracy: El Tuso

Uribe involved in DAS, paramilitary conspiracy: El Tuso
Sunday, 05 February 2012 17:55
Adriaan Alsema

Colombian newspaper El Espectador released video Sunday in which extradited drug lord "El Tuso" testifies that former President Alvaro Uribe was involved in a conspiracy with his spy agency and former paramilitary leaders to discredit the country's Supreme Court.

In the six-hour long interrogation, El Tuso affirmed recently released statements by senior AUC chief "Don Berna" that former paramilitary leaders conspired with the Uribe government to discredit the court that after 2006 increasingly unveiled ties between coalition politicians and the AUC, which is held responsible for the forced disappearance and killing of tens of thousands of Colombians and deemed a terrorist organization by the U.S. in 2002.

According to El Tuso, whose real name is Juan Carlos Sierra, "we all worked for a common good" and that the main political accomplices in the conspiracy "were [the ex president's jailed cousin] Mario Uribe, [the ex-president's brother] Santiago Uribe, [former presidential adviser] Jose Obdulio Gaviria, [jailed former chief of staff] Bernardo Moreno, [exiled former spy chief] Maria del Pilar Hurtado, [jailed intelligence executive] Martha Leal and former President Alvaro Uribe."

The extradited drug lord, who falsely demobilized as a member of the AUC in order to receive benefits, the DAS worked together with several demobilized paramilitary leaders such as Don Berna, "Ernesto Baez," and "Julian Bolivar."

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