Paramilitary speaks out on Drummond murders

[Judi Lynn]

Paramilitary speaks out on Drummond murders
Friday, 17 September 2010 09:50 Teresa Welsh

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A paramilitary jailed for his role in the 2001 murders of two Drummond coal company unionists reveals more detail about the crime to RCN Radio. Jairo de Jesus Charris Castro, alias “El Viejo Migue," has been in prison since 2008. He says the killings were ordered by Jaime Blanco Maya, head of a company which provided cafeteria services at the Drummond mine in the Cesar department.

Charris told RCN that Blanco Maya ordered the murder of the two unionists because they complained to Drummond about the quality of the food, and he feared losing his $600,000-a-year contract. Blanco Maya, brother of former Colombian Inspector General Edgardo Maya, was arrested on September 6 in connection with the murders.

Charris claimed that Blanco Maya met with former AUC leader Ospino Pacheco to order the murders of Valmore Locarno and Victor Hugo Orcasita. The two men were president and vice president, respectively, of a labor union at Drummond, and were killed on March 12, 2001.

The paramilitary said that several meetings were held to plan the murder of the two men. Charris claims those involved an ex-CIA agent, and former Drummond employee Alfredo Araujo Castro, who signed Blanco Maya's contract with the multinational. The men decided to "put an end to the union," according to Charris.

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1. Brother of former Attorney General , to answer for alleged links to paramilitaries

Google translation of article published in El Heraldo:

Brother of former Attorney General , to answer for alleged links to paramilitaries

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Jaime Maya White was captured by members of the CTI at home in
Valledupar.
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By Miguel Barrios
Valledupar.

Jaime Maya White , 57 , brother of former Attorney General Edgardo Maya Villazón , was captured in this capital by agents of the CTI of the Prosecutor to answer for the crimes of conspiracy and aggravated homicide. The detainee is linked to a trial for the murder of two multinational Drummond unionists by paramilitaries .

White is the second brother of former Chief Public Prosecutor's Office investigated and prosecuted for alleged links to the structures of the Northern Bloc of the AUC , the commander Rodrigo Tovar Pupo , alias Jorge 40. In May 2008 he was arrested Angel Maya, former director of the hospital Pumarejo Rosario Lopez , after being ' splashed ' by former paramilitaries say they have been part of the organization and put at the service of it to body care.

Jaime Blanco 's capture was in compliance with an order of Unit Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law , which is investigating him for alleged involvement in the killings of Valmore Locarno and Victor Hugo Orcasita , president and vice president respectively Drummond union in events that occurred on March 12, 2001 . On these facts had been captured last July Charris Castro Jairo de Jesus , who according to the CTI , to the date of the double murder was the chief security International Food Company SA , a supplier of the mine in La Loma , owned Maya White and was administrator .

Former members of the AUC said Jaime Blanco as the person who planned the murder of two trade unionists , apparently because the organization of workers protesting food service that provided for the multinational .

The death of Valmore Locarno and Víctor Hugo Orcasita occurred at the site known as' Casa de Zinc , " Loma Colorada township , the municipality of Bosconia , where a paramilitary commando and had intercepted off the bus transporting them being killed.

The process for the deaths of union leaders is linked as an alleged co-author Jorge 40 .

Ptolemais , guilty. Former paramilitary leader Ospino Oscar Pacheco , alias Ptolemais was sentenced to 30 years in prison after a judge accepted his responsibility in the murder of two trade unionists Drummond.

It was one of the top lieutenants Jorge 40 and was in command of 400 men from a front of the Northern Bloc of the AUC. Ptolemais was captured in December 2009 in the State of Tachira , Venezuela and deported to Colombia. The two trade unionists who had been threatened by paramilitaries , were killed apparently by promoting a strike , to press for the change of the contractor who provided the food service employees in the coal mine .

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