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Judi Lynn

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Sun Apr 3, 2016, 06:40 PM Apr 2016

Urabeņos shut-down ends after expanding terror campaign to Medellin

Urabeños shut-down ends after expanding terror campaign to Medellin
Posted by Adriaan Alsema on Apr 3, 2016

Colombia’s largest paramilitary successor group Los Urabeños ended its economic shutdown of the north of Colombia on Saturday.

The group on Friday extended Thursday’s 24-hour “pacific strike” that had already left several policemen dead and millions terrified.

To further amplify its show of force, the neo-paramilitaries expanded their campaign fro the north to Medellin, Colombia’s largest city.

The announcement of the strike become known Wednesday when the Urabeños, or Gaitanista Self Defense Forces, released pamphlets ordering the strike for Thursday in numerous parts of Colombia, mainly along the Caribbean and Pacific coasts.

The next morning, the north of Colombia was virtually paralyzed.

http://colombiareports.com/paramilitary-shutdown-ends-extending-terror-northern-colombia/

(Short article, no more at link.)

Right-wing fascist pieces of dirt, Uribe's own assassins.

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