Former Plan Colombia chief called for questioning over drug lord ties .
Former Plan Colombia chief called for questioning over drug lord ties .
Monday, 20 February 2012 19:50
Adriaan Alsema
Colombia's former executive director of the U.S.-funded counter-narcotics initiative "Plan Colombia" was called in for questioning by the country's Prosecutor General's Office Monday to respond to allegations she had ties with the AUC, responsible for most drug trafficking from Colombia before its 2006 demobilization.
Sandra Suarez, appointed by former President Alvaro Uribe in 2002 to work with the U.S. to combat drug trafficking, faces accusations she had ties to "Jorge 40," one of the paramilitary AUC's main leaders.
According to the former ICT director of the now-defunct intelligence agency DAS, Suarez plotted with Jorge 40 and three former governors to expand the paramilitary's political power in the north of the country in 2006 when Suarez was minister of environment, housing and territorial development.
All three governors have been sentenced for their ties to the paramilitary chief.
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