Uribe introduces "massacre with social criteria"
by Adriaan Alsema April 8, 2019
The political patron of Colombia’s President Ivan Duque, former President Alvaro Uribe, on Sunday suggested that authorities have the right to instigate a “massacre with social criteria.”
The Tweet was part of a series in which the senator expressed his disapproval over a compromise made between the government and Native Colombians in the southwest after weeks of violence.
Ahead of the deal, native Colombian spokesperson Jose Pete said that if the police use force to clear the Pan-American highway that was blocked during the protests, this could result “in the worst massacre of Colombia.”
Uribe responded that “if authority, serenely, firmly and with social criteria instigate a massacre this is because on the other side there is violence and terror aside protest.”
More:
https://colombiareports.com/uribe-introduces-massacre-with-social-criteria/
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Alvaro Uribe giving everyone a treat, seeing his superior horsemanship skills.
Regarding Uribe's background:
Washington D.C., July 9, 2018 – A ranch owned by former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe Vélez and other members of his family was the operational base of a deadly paramilitary group, according to the testimony of people who worked for the Uribe family in the 1990s.
The new evidence, which was reviewed by the National Security Archive, is the subject of an investigation published today in The New York Times featuring commentary from Michael Evans, director of the Archive’s Colombia documentation project.
In a series of declarations during the past year, three former employees of “La Carolina” ranch in Yarumal, Colombia, said that the Uribe family, and especially the former president’s brother, Santiago Uribe, had a close and friendly relationship with the presumed leader of the “Doce Apóstoles” (Twelve Apostles), a death squad that prosecutors say targeted petty criminals, drug addicts and the presumed supporters of insurgent groups like the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN).
There has long been a perception in Colombia that Álvaro Uribe’s policies, first as governor of Antioquia and later as president, helped to foster the growth of illegal paramilitaries, which are responsible for most of the human rights abuses committed in recent decades. As governor of Antioquia, Uribe was one of the most prominent proponents of state-sponsored civil militia groups known as “Convivir,” some of which were fronts for, or worked in concert with, Colombia’s notorious paramilitary army, the United Self-defense Forces of Colombia (AUC).
But these new declarations are part of a growing body of evidence suggesting that the Uribe family was directly involved in training and directing the operations of the outlaw groups.
More:
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/colombia/2018-07-09/former-colombian-presidents-ranch-paramilitary-base-according-new-testimony
He is the mentor of the current Colombian "President," Ivan Duque, who makes sure to do everything the little Teflon Dweeb tells him. Duque is standing to Uribe's left:
Uribe's little thug boys, called "Tom and Jerry" by the people.
Tomás and Jerónimo (left)
La Semana, popular Colombian newspaper had an article back in 2008, regarding the fact Tomás and Jerónimo didn't want their tax returns revealed, just like Trump.
https://www.semana.com/international/print-edition/articulo/the-colombian-presidents-sons/97857-3
Their good friend, David Murcia Guzmán, was sentenced to prison for money laundering etc. He is deeply involved in organied crime, and his association with them didn't seem a problem, and they live on as the Teflon Brats.
Supreme Court downgraded eight years to the penalty of David Murcia Guzmán
04-Feb-16
The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court reduced the sentence to David Murcia Guzmán , brain of the illegal money collector DMG, from 30 to 22 years in prison , as well as a fine of 25 thousand minimum wages.
In August 2013, the Superior Court of Bogotá ratified in the second instance the sentence of 30 years in prison and 50 thousand minimum wages against Murcia, for the crimes of massive and habitual collection of money and money laundering . However, the high court officially dismissed the conviction and the fine against Murcia to find that it was assessed in the wrong way.
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Murcia Guzman was extradited from 2010 to the United States and when he finishes paying his sentence there he will have to return to Colombia to answer for the crimes of massive and habitual collection of money and money laundering.
https://canal1.com.co/noticias/nacional/corte-suprema-rebajo-ocho-anos-a-la-pena-de-david-murcia-guzman/
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Colombia has been described as being a "feudal state" for a very long time, treating African-Colombians, indigenous Colombians, and the vast poor class like trash, ignoring them always unless they protest their worsening conditions, then they get slaughtered. That's why the civil war has been going on since the 1940's, when they assassinated a beloved progressive official who hoped to work for the betterment of the working class.
Wikipedia:
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala (January 23, 1903 – April 9, 1948) was a politician, a leader of a populist movement in Colombia, a former Education Minister (1940) and Labor Minister (1943–1944), mayor of Bogotá (1936) and one of the most charismatic leaders of the Liberal Party. He was assassinated during his second presidential campaign in 1948, setting off the Bogotazo[2] and leading to a violent period of political unrest in Colombian history known as La Violencia (approx. 1948 to 1958).
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Early political career
Gaitán was active in politics in the early 1920s, when he was part of a protest movement against president Marco Fidel Suárez.
Gaitán increased his nationwide popularity following a banana workers' strike in Magdalena in 1928.
After U.S. officials in Colombia, along with United Fruit representatives, portrayed the worker's strike as "communist" with "subversive tendency", in telegrams to the U.S. Secretary of State,[11] the government of the United States of America threatened to invade with the U.S. Marine Corps if the Colombian government did not act to protect United Fruit’s interests. Strikers were fired upon by the army[12] on the orders of the United Fruit Company, resulting in numerous deaths.
Gaitán used his skills as a lawyer and as an emerging politician in order to defend workers' rights and called for accountability to those involved in the Santa Marta Massacre.[12] Public support soon shifted toward Gaitán, Gaitán's Liberal Party won the 1930 presidential election.[12]
In 1933 he created the "Unión Nacional Izquierdista Revolucionaria" ("National Leftist Revolutionary Union" ), or UNIR, as his own dissident political movement after breaking with the Liberal Party.
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Eli%C3%A9cer_Gait%C3%A1n
(It's so hard to imagine who would have wanted him murdered.....)
Many photos of this man before and after his assassination. He was semi-immortalized in statues all over the country, and on currency and stamps, etc.
http://tinyurl.com/y4s6trb8