American Puppet Alvaro Uribe

Álvaro Uribe entered politics at the age of 26 when he was elected mayor of Medellín in 1982 — a payback for his father helping finance the campaign of Belisario Betancur, President of Colombia from 1982 to 1986. Sacked after three months for what Tom Feiling, writing in New Internationalist, termed his 'ties to the drug Mafia,' Uribe then became Director of Civil Aviation and 'issued pilots' licences to Pablo Escobar's fleet of light aircraft flying cocaine to Florida. ' Feiling goes on to report that: "In 1995 Uribe became Governor of his home province of Antioquia ... [P]rivate security services and paramilitary death squads enjoyed immunity from prosecution under Governor Uribe and were free to launch a campaign of terror. Thousands of trade unionists, students and human rights workers were murdered, disappeared or driven out of the province." During his run for President in 2002, Uribe's tough talk against FARC and National Liberation Army (ELN) — Colombia's second largest Left-wing guerrilla army — was popular with many middle- and upper-class Colombians. And his paramilitary friends made sure the rest of the population made the right choice as well. Even then, Uribe only managed 53 per cent of the votes, after just 25 per cent of the electorate bothered to vote. According to Rafael García — a former high-level official in Colombia's intelligence agency serving an 11-year jail sentence for money-laundering (among other charges) — what happened in 2002 was a 'massive electoral fraud' as paramilitary groups personally selected candidates for Congress. ..since the 1980s according to numerous reports, between 75-85 per cent of all human rights violations have been carried out by the Colombian military and their paramilitary allies, with the rest attributed to the guerrillas. While FARC and ELN should certainly be held accountable for violations against civilians, their record pales in comparison to the brutal and systematic crimes of the Colombian State. Since Uribe took power in 2002, over 500 trade unionists have been killed, often in the most brutal manner (PDF). His utter contempt for human rights organizers was expressed openly in 2003 when he declared them to be 'spokesmen for terrorism' and challenged them to 'take off their masks...and drop this cowardice of hiding their ideas behind human rights.' Sad Peon Empire Alvaro Uribe Paramilitary Death Squad Narco State Terror Puppet President Bush Plan Colombia Latin America Parapolitica Imperialism

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