“(Army chief General Mario) Montoya and a paramilitary group jointly planned and conducted a military operation in 2002 to eliminate Marxist guerrillas from poor areas around Medellin, a city in northwestern Colombia that has been a center of the drug trade.
At least 14 people were killed during the operation, and opponents of Uribe charge that dozens more disappeared in its aftermath”.
A CIA spokesman did not confirm or deny the authenticity of the report, though a communiqué from the Colombian government categorically denied any ties between General Montoya and paramilitary groups.
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Links- Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, ABC News, International Herald Tribune, Al Jazeera
Image- School of the Americas Watch
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