Colombian ex-intel official wanted for killing human rights defender
Source: Colombia Reports
Colombian ex-intel official wanted for killing human rights defender
Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:39
Adriaan Alsema
An arrest warrant has been issued for a Colombian ex-intelligence official suspected of murdering a human rights activist and scholar in 2004, local media reported Tuesday.
Javier Valle Alfredo Anaya, worked for the now-defunct Administrative Department of Security (DAS), Colombia's security agency until 2011. He is accused of arranging the murder of sociologist Alfredo Correa de Andreis and his bodyguard, after framing the academic of having links to the FARC.
The pair were shot by members of the "Jose Pablo Diaz" front of the AUC, Colombia's largest disbanded paramilitary organization.
Months before his death, Correa de Andreis, who campaigned on human rights issues, was arrested on suspicion of collaborating with the FARC. It was later revealed that Alfredo Anaya had used state funds to pay people to falsely convince investigators Correa de Andreis had links to the guerrilla group.
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From the Reaganite Republican, concerning the the President whose administration he served:
10 August 2010 What a REAL Leader Looks Like: Alvaro Uribe
-Gracias, Señor Presidente
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His friendship has also paid off handsomely for the U.S. As with Australia's John Howard and the U.K.'s Tony Blair, President Bush knew what he was doing when he presented Colombia's president with the Medal of Freedom, America's highest honor, in 2009.
Rarely has our country benefited so greatly from an alliance. Before Uribe was elected in 2002, Colombia was one of our biggest headaches. A rural, underdeveloped society, it was unprepared for the first wave of the global drug trade, and its name had become synonymous with cartels. Corruption stretched from the lowliest slum dwellers to the presidential palace and seemed incurable. The cartels then turned into guerrilla groups that by 1998 almost claimed victory in the drug war.
But as sometimes occurs in times of crisis, a real leader stepped forward. Uribe focused on just two things: human rights and development. He called his plan "democratic security." He marshaled the best in his people and cultivated an alliance with America.
cont'd
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http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-real-leader-looks-like-alvaro.html
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