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... "How mafiosos and politicians reconfigured the Colombian State."

That is the title of a new book inaugurated at the Bogota Book Fair that ends this weekend. It is a devestating condemnation of Hillary's good friend uribe and of his regime. This only two weeks after alvarito left the scene.

The book is an exhaustive investigation by a group of Colombian authors from five institutions who conducted a three-year study of Alvaro Uribe's eight years in power.

Brief highlights:

_-- uribe had strong ties with the narco-paramilaries, enabling that mafia to become politically legitimate.

-- the narco-paramilitaires almost gained total power in Colombia.

-- the narco-paramilitaries practically "co-governed" with uribe.

-- 102 members of Congress were linked to illegal groups, five to the FARC.

-- the other 97 were linked to the armed extreme right; 25 have been convicted, 10 are being processed that the rest are under investigation.

-- the legislators linked to the paramilitaries represented 55 percent of the uribista Senate.

-- (Claudia Lopez) "Colombia, under democracy, had more disappeared, more assassinated, more human rights violations than the three dictatorships in the Southern Cone combined."

-- In 20 years of political conflict, there have been more than 31,000 disappeared and 165,000 deaths.

-- In the new Congress that was elected in March, there are 29 senators who are under investigation for "parapolitics."

More here:

http://www.telesurtv.net/noticias/secciones/nota/76945-NN/investigacion-asegura-que-gobierno-de-uribe-estuvo-fuertemente-vinculado-con-narcoparamiliatarismo/

Much more here by googling the title of the book:

Y refundaron la patria. De cómo mafiosos y políticos reconfiguraron el Estado colombiano (Debate 2010)

(edit to correct typo)