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US cables: Colombia’s ex-president suspected of militia ties

by Associated Press
| August 31, 2020 7:27 AM

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A high-level U.S. Department of Defense official strongly suspected that Colombia's then-President Álvaro Uribe – now under house arrest - had a history of dealings with violent paramilitaries, according to a newly declassified memo from his early years in office.

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