AUC founder gave orders to El Tiempo journalist: Letters (Colombian narco/death squad war lord)

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Colombia Reports

AUC founder gave orders to El Tiempo journalist: Letters
Wednesday, 14 September 2011 18:04
Sarah Cast

Carlos Castaño, the late founder of the paramilitary army the AUC, instructed El Tiempo journalist Salud Hernandez-Mora what to publish, according to letters revealed Wednesday by the newspaper Un Pasquin.

In a letter sent to Hernandez-Mora in January 2003, Castaño wrote, “I beg, very respectfully, that you smooth out my answer to the question of how to finance the paramilitaries abandoning drug trafficking.”

“Esteemed commander,” replied Hernandez-Mora on January 31, 2003, “I understand your request, and it will be done.”

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The letters reportedly prove that Castaño was corresponding not only with Hernandez-Mora and Yamhure, but with former Constitutional Court Judge Rodrigo Escobar Gil and the current Colombian ambassador to Peru Jorge Visbal.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/18987-letters-reveal-auc-founder-told-journalist-what-to-write.html

Read more: Carlos Castaño, the late founder of the paramilitary army the AUC, instructed El Tiempo journalist Salud Hernandez-Mora what to publish, according to letters revealed Wednesday by the newspaper Un Pasquin.

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