North-Colombia journalists threatened over interview with demobilized paramilitary .
North-Colombia journalists threatened over interview with demobilized paramilitary .
Saturday, 15 September 2012 18:49 Adriaan Alsema
Ten journalists from the north of Colombia have received death threats after interviewing a demobilized paramilitary leader who accused a local mayor of ties to paramilitary groups, one of the journalists wrote on his blog Saturday.
According to Alejandro Arias, the death threats followed an interview with "El Canoso," a demobilized paramilitary leader of the now-defunct Tayrona Resistance Bloc, led by the now-extradited Hernan Giraldo, alias "El Viejo."
In the interview, Canoso accused Santa Marta Mayor Carlos Caicedo, other local politicians and one of the sons of former President Alvaro Uribe of having ties to the "Northern Bloc," to which the Tayrona Resistance Bloc belonged.
In a letter signed by "The Caribbean Office.", the journalists were told that "enemies deserve to die so they shut up forever."
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