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Colombia's top general investigated for drugs and death squad collusion

category international | miscellaneous | other press author Tuesday March 27, 2007 14:15author by anton

The Los Angeles Times reported last week that Colombia’s military chief ,General Mario Montoya ,is under investigation for links with right wing paramiltaries. Montayo is a close associate of Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe who George Bush last week called a personal friend.
In 2002 Montayo joined with a paramilitary group with links to the infamous Mendelin drugs cartel to plan and conduct a military operation to eliminate Marxist guerrillas from poor areas around Medellin.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la...=true
see also:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/colombia/story/0,,2043614,00.html
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/mar2007/colo-m27.shtml

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/81666

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