Son of Colombian warlord slain following sentence (In the U.S.)

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Son of Colombian warlord slain following sentence
AP POSTED: October 20, 2008

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) _ Colombian police say the son of a warlord extradited to the U.S. on drug charges has been murdered.

Authorities say unidentified assailants shot and killed 32-year-old Vladimir Vanoy on Sunday at the gate to his condominium outside Bogota.

Ramiro "Cuco" Vanoy is Validmir's father. He was extradited to the United States in May with 13 other far-right warlords. A Miami judge earlier this month sentenced him to 24 years in prison on drug-trafficking charges.

After the sentencing, the newspaper El Tiempo quoted one of his lawyers as saying he would no longer cooperate with investigations into crimes associated with far-right militias.




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[atreides1]

1. Empty Threat

"After the sentencing, the newspaper El Tiempo quoted one of his lawyers as saying he would no longer cooperate with investigations into crimes associated with far-right militias."

Did he actually believe that this administration wanted those investigations to be successful?

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. He knew who he was dealing with.

He refuses to cooperate against the RW government figures who backed him, because of their threats against his family if he did cooperate. Son was a case in point. If they get any word about him cooperating with prosecutors, he still has a lot of family to go.

This is the government that McCain calls our most valuable ally in the region.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Photo of the right-wing warlord narcotrafficker father:

5 months ago: Colombian former paramilitary commander, Ramiro Vanoy, alias Cuco Vanoy, is escorted by police from a plane that took him from Medellin to the Catam military airport in Bogota, where he will be transferred to another plane to be flown to the United States, May 13, 2008. Colombia extradited 14 top former paramilitary bosses to face U.S. justice in the toughest measure against the warlords who are accused of drug trafficking and massacres, a top government official said.





Extradited paramilitary leader Ramiro 'Cuco' Vanoy Ramírez suspended cooperation with Colombian justice just days after a U.S. judge sentenced him to 24 years in prison.

Germán Navarette, lawyer of the former warlord, said Vanoy had made the decision because he was worried about the safety of his family.

Meanwhile, Vanoy's former boss Salvatore Mancuso, who's already been heard by the U.S. Supreme Court from his U.S. jail, asked Colombian justice to hurry up with the Justice and Peace law and give him the possibility to give more openness about his committed crimes.

http://colombiareports.com/colombian-news/news/1709-cuco-vanoy-suspends-cooperation-with-colombian-justice.html

The result of hurrying these arch-criminals out of Colombia, and trying them in the States for narcotrafficking removes them from Colombia, of course, and of the reach of the Colombian courts which otherwise would try them for the mass murders they committed during massacres, many of which were augmented by members of the Colombian MILITARY, carried out with full knowledge of Colombian military personel, and others higher up the chain.

Once they are safely here, and in prison, no one in Colombia is going to charge them for tortures, terrorism, and chain-saw murders of helpless villagers in Colombia, or implicate them in a right-wing cabal which DOES include Colombian right-wing politicians, many of which have already been tried and convicted.

[cosmicdot]

4. k&r

strange, I don't see this as just a "Latin America" topic where the thread was moved

[Judi Lynn]

5. Thank you, cosmicdot. I made a point of including in the message line

the fact the trial was in the United States, most clearly connected to the U.S. taxpayers in every possible sense.

And, as you've seen, _{George W. Bush's} idea of moving them all here to try them on a far LESS serious charge of narco-trafficking instead of mass murder back at home in Colombia was a corrupt, and evil choice. These men need to be tried in their own country, and answer for their massacres of so many Colombian people, and tell the relatives and survivors where the hell they buried their bodies.

Clearly it's dangerous to the Uribe administration to allow them to go to trial in Colombia, since the lines of connection go all the way to the top. People have talked about Uribe's connections to the narcotraffickers for at least 8 years that I've known of, when I first started hearing about it from a Colombian gentleman who moved to the United States to get away from all that hell, and who most surely has no respect whatsoever for Uribe, or for his deceased father.

This article does belong in LBN, as the Colombian war is being financed by the United States citizens, the U.S. President knows Colombia is his only strong ally in South America, and particularly because he has brought these genocidal monsters HERE and tried them on a far, FAR less serious charge of drug trafficking.

I sent an alert on the dead thread to the moderator hours ago, and I'm still waiting for a reply on it.

Thank you for your kick & R! :hi: