'Uribe knew about false demobilization': Former guerrilla
'Uribe knew about false demobilization': Former guerrilla
Monday, 13 February 2012 12:13
Charles Parkinson
Ex-President Alvaro Uribe knew about the 2006 "false demobilization" plot, according to former guerrilla "Biofilo" in an interview with Colombia's Noticias Uno Sunday.
Felipe Salazar, alias Biofilo, a former FARC guerrilla who acted as the leader of the fictitious Cacica Gaitana Front, has outlined how former Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo acted as emissary for Uribe, in an alleged plot funded by a drug trafficker and designed to lend credibility to the government's demobilization efforts.
Salazar said, "It was crucial to make this show and present it to the country as a success of the democratic security policy (...) The emissary told us that the president was aware and that he was given authorization to carry out the demobilization."
The former rebel added, "The greatest fraud was to the international community (...) who dispersed money for the peace process. (...) I refer not only to the Gaitana Front, but to all cases of demobilization, which were fraudulent."
More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/22172-uribe-knew-about-false-demobilization-former-guerrilla.html
(My emphasis)
