Prosecutors seek former spy chief’s help in investigating top Uribe aides, in vain says attorney

[Judi Lynn]

Prosecutors seek former spy chief’s help in investigating top Uribe aides, in vain says attorney
Feb 3, 2015 posted by Rebecca Florey



Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office is seeking the help of the country’s recently arrested former spy chief to amplify investigations against top aides of former President Alvaro Uribe.

The former director of Colombia’s now-defunct spy agency DAS has been told by the prosecutor that she could receive benefits if she helps prosecutors determine whether four suspects can be implicated in the scandal.

Specifically, the cases refer to Edmundo del Castillo, Legal Secretary of the Presidency during the second period of Alvaro Uribe, the Senator Jose Obdulio Gaviria, the former head of communications Cesar Mauricio Velasquez and Jorge Mario Eastman, the former vice Minister under Juan Manuel Santos who was defense minister before resigning to successfully aim for the presidency.

Gaviria, one of Uribe’s most loyal aides, has been suspected of involvement for years, but none of the suspicions have previously led to a formal investigation.

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1. Drug Lords, Drug ‘Ladies,’ & Alvaro Uribe’s sister-in-law

Published August 16, 2012
By Daniel Hopsicker

Exceprts:

Why did two successive U.S. Administrations lavish billions of dollars to stop drug trafficking on a President of Colombia who was himself involved in the drug trade?

Dolly Cifuentes-Villa and her daughter Ana Maria Uribe Cifuentes flew in under the radar, almost unnoticed. Yet, shockingly, both belong to the family of the former President of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, and were actively involved in drug trafficking while Uribe was at the same time being paid $8 billion by the U.S.’s Plan Colombia to pursue a war against that country’s cocaine traffickers.

A declassified report made public in 1991 by the U.S. DIA, directly linked then-senator Alvaro Uribe to Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel (as well as naming Saudi financier Adnan Khashoggi as a trafficker).

The report referred to Uribe as “a Colombian politician dedicated to collaboration with the Medellin cartel at high levels,” claiming Uribe was “a close personal friend” of Escobar’s.

While Uribe’s rival cocaine barons in Colombia were being hunted, their coca sprayed, and their flights regularly interdicted, officials in both the US and Colombia turned a blind eye to Uribe-backed traffickers who the U.S. now says sent 500 tons of cocaine to the U.S.

The War on Drugs, whose $40 billion a year price tag is footed by US taxpayers, benefits just a small group of insiders who are able to command the official complicity of their governments in their drug trafficking endeavors.

This would all be a huge scandal, if we had a free press.

http://www.madcowprod.com/2012/08/16/queen-pacific-sister-alvaro-uribe/

[Judi Lynn]

2. Outstanding! So good to read this information. It needs to be widely known.

God knows we can never expect to learn these things from our own state corporate media! That just never happens, does it?

How refreshing, how compelling. It's a keeper.

Thank you.