2nd Uribe security chief investigated over alleged drug links .

[Judi Lynn]

2nd Uribe security chief investigated over alleged drug links .
Sunday, 24 March 2013 10:54 Adriaan Alsema

Colombia's police said Saturday they have called a former security chief for former President Alvaro Uribe for questioning over his suspected ties to drug traffickers. The police general is the second of Uribe's former security chiefs suspected of having ties to drug trafficking groups.

National Police chief Jose Roberto Leon announced Saturday he had ordered General Flavio Buitrago to explain why he appeared on sound recordings with a former member of the Medellin Cartel, led by Pablo Escobar until his death in 1993.

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Dozens of lawmakers and top officials of the two Uribe administrations have been convicted since the breaking of the "parapolitics" scandal that exposed extensive ties between the AUC and the army, now-defunct intelligence agency DAS, the police, prosecution offices, Congress and the President's Office.

Among those convicted for their ties to paramilitary groups are the former president's cousin Mario Uribe, former DAS director Jorge Noguera, the brother of Uribe's then-Interior and Justice Minister, and the brother of the former Foreign Minister. Under investigation are Uribe himself, his brother, and several former top Presidency officials.

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/28676-2nd-uribe-security-chief-investigated-over-alleged-drug-links.html

[sabrina 1]

1. Amazing that these crooked, brutal people are allies of this country. Says a lot to see some of the

anti-Chavez contingency here totally ignoring what they CLAIM to be so concerned about where it actually was happening.

Shame on the US for their support of these criminals and for their anti-Democratic policies towards countries that actually are democracies, like Venezuela. Says a lot to me the lack of criticism of Uribe and his band of brutal thugs here from the anti-Chavez contingency. Says more than anything else and should be noted and questioned constantly, of our government and of the propagandists in the media and of course here.

[Catherina]

2. In total agreement n/t