Former Inspector General's brother accused of murdering Drummond contractor

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Colombia Reports

Former Inspector General's brother accused of murdering Drummond contractor
Thursday, 09 June 2011 16:54
Jim Glade

The brother of former Inspector General Edgardo Maya Villazon has been charged with ordering the murder of a Drummond contractor in 2000 reported El Espectador Thursday.

Jaime Blanco Maya is being held in custody at the order of the Prosecutor General for ordering the May 8, 2000 assassination of Hugo Manuel Guerra a contractor for U.S. mining company Drummond.

Guerra disappeared while traveling on a road near the municipality of Becerril in the northern Cesar department.

His dismembered body was found covered in lime in a pit on a nearby Chiquita banana farm.


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(Chiquita is also a US-based company, and also has been identified, as has Alabama-based Drummond Company, with hiring right-wing paramilitaries who killed Colombian union workers.)