Salvatore Mancuso confirmed Álvaro Uribe's cooperation with Colombian paramilitaries

Published at: 12/03/2024 02:10 PM

The former Colombian paramilitary chief, Salvatore Mancuso, revealed that the former president, Alvaro Uribe, cooperated with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia while he was governor of Antioquia.

“During the years in which you were governor of Antioquia and during your first presidential term, there was connivance, cooperation and a shared counterinsurgency project between the institutions you led and the AUC. At the very least, you and the senior officials of your government at that time turned a blind eye or ended up participating directly in paramilitary actions and operations,” Mancuso explained in a letter published recently in response to Uribe's allegations against you.

According to a message from Uribe in his X account, “Mancuso calls on people to report me for links to paramilitaries. Those people can't accuse me of anything.”

In this regard, the paraco recently repatriated from the United States said: “My objective does not include seeking your judicialization; perhaps what underlies you, Mr. former president, is a kind of unfounded fear that leads you to believe that I have returned for the purpose of persecuting you, a cowardly manifestation of sin, a form of fear bordering on paranoia. You don't deserve me or any other former commander of the AUC to become your executioners, your decline is drawing gray and bizarre in the collective imagination of a society that wants to turn the page; Your name and mine are on that page that Colombians want to turn, I invite you to pass it on to a closing court in which you and I need to appear”.

He also urged Uribe to appear before the Colombian justice system to “tell his truth.”

Mazo News Team