{"id":1881,"date":"2007-03-06T20:16:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T20:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moir.org.co\/web\/let-washington-divulge-what-it-knows-about-paramilitary-and-para-political-activities-en-colombia\/"},"modified":"2007-03-06T20:16:31","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T20:16:31","slug":"let-washington-divulge-what-it-knows-about-paramilitary-and-para-political-activities-en-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moir.com.co\/web\/let-washington-divulge-what-it-knows-about-paramilitary-and-para-political-activities-en-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"LET WASHINGTON DIVULGE WHAT IT KNOWS ABOUT PARAMILITARY AND \u201cPARA-POLITICAL\u201d ACTIVITIES EN COLOMBIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong> \tPress Office, Senator Jorge Robledo, Official Spokesperson, Polo Democr\u00e1tico  \tAlternativo (PDA). Bogota, Colombia, March 5, 2007<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>In connection with the planned visit of President George W. Busth to  Colombia, Senator Jorge Robledo, spokesperson for the Polo Democr\u00e1tico  Alternativo (PDA), wanted answers to the following questions: \u201cAre the State  Department and the US Embassy in Colombia aware of what has happened in terms of  paramilitary activities and \u201cpara-politicking\u201d in Colombia over the last twenty  years? Do they know that nearly one hundred political leaders close to President  Uribe are jailed, fugitives from the law, and named or implicated because of  their relations with paramilitary organizations? Do they know that already nine  members of the Colombian Congress, all close friends of the Uribe administration,  have been ordered to jail by the Colombian Supreme Court because of their  involvement? Are the State Department and the US Embassy aware that in Colombia  people speak increasingly of \u201cpara-Uribismo,\u201d not merely \u201cpara-politicking\u201d? Was  there no connection between US policies and the formation of these criminal  organizations and activities?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Robledo formulated these questions after sources close to the  administration of President Uribe touted the forthcoming March 11 visit of  George W. Bush to Colombia. These sources portrayed the visit as an explicit  backing by the White House of Colombia\u2019s President, even with respect to the  para-politicking scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Robledo reminded us that, under Plan Colombia, the military presence  of the United States increased to the tune of four billion dollars. The US  presence includes well-known robust operations by numerous agents of the CIA,  the DEA, the FBI, regular US military as well as mercenary forces. In that  regard Robledo cited comments by U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy who said that \u201cthe  Colombian government is not simply a victim of their corrupt influences.\u201d Leahy  further stated that the Colombian government \u201callowed the flourishing of  paramilitary groups, sometimes colluding with those groups, other times  fostering their activities.\u201d (El Tiempo, March 4, 2007) <\/p>\n<p>Senator Robledo emphasized that the truth about paramilitary and para-political  activities must be addressed for peace to be achieved in Colombia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Office, Senator Jorge Robledo, Official Spokesperson, Polo Democr\u00e1tico Alternativo (PDA). Bogota, Colombia, March 5, 2007 In connection with the planned visit of President George W. Busth to Colombia, Senator Jorge Robledo, spokesperson for the Polo Democr\u00e1tico Alternativo (PDA), wanted answers to the following questions: \u201cAre the State Department and the US Embassy in Colombia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-temas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moir.com.co\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moir.com.co\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moir.com.co\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moir.com.co\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moir.com.co\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moir.com.co\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moir.com.co\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moir.com.co\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moir.com.co\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}