Colombia to exhume murdered justice minister’s body
Colombia to exhume murdered justice minister’s body
Posted by Taran Volckhausen on Feb 23, 2016
More than 30 years after his death, prosecution investigators will exhume the body of former Colombian Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara, who was killed in 1984 by two of Pablo Escobar’s assassins, possibly in conjunction with security officials.
In 1984, only eight months after taking office, the 37-year-old former Justice Minister was leading the Colombian state’s assault against Pablo Escobar and his Medellin Cartel.
At the time, Escobar had recently elected to the Colombian Congress. However, Lara denounced the drug lord, publicly leading the government to expose his illegal cocaine empire. As a result, Escobar was removed from Congress.
At the same time, a political push began toward extraditing drug traffickers to the United States, leading to outrage and panic among the country’s drug trafficking organizations. In the midst of this political storm, on April 30, 1984, the audacious Justice Minister was gunned down in his car.
More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-exhumes-justice-ministers-body-to-address-questions-about-his-murder/
