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Judi Lynn

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Wed Sep 9, 2020, 05:05 PM Sep 2020

The secrets of 'Jorge 40', the warlord who owned Colombia's Caribbean region

by Adriaan Alsema September 9, 2020

Rodrigo Tovar, the former warlord who virtually owned Colombia’s Caribbean coast and its politicians, wants to talk after years of silence.

The former commander of the AUC‘s Northern Bloc is expected to return from the United States, where he spent 12 years in prison for drug trafficking, later this month.

Lots of people with good reasons to be nervous
The return of Tovar, a.k.a. “Jorge 40,” should make a lot of people nervous, even the bosses of Chiquita, the company that started with bananas and ended up implicated in arms trafficking.

Former President Alvaro Uribe also has reasons to worry as Tovar could easily get the shady prosecutor who is supposed to be trying Uribe on fraud and bribery charges in prison.

The former paramilitary commander never got the chance to talk about the prosecutors in his pocket because Uribe extradited Tovar and 13 other AUC leaders to the US in May 2008.

Tovar has only been heard eight times, but by then the paramilitaries’ confessions had even gotten the former president’s cousin Mario in trouble for his narco ties.

More:
https://colombiareports.com/the-secrets-of-jorge-40-the-warlord-who-owned-colombias-caribbean-region/



Rodrigo Tovar, AKA "Jorge 40"

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