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Colombia: “Many Parapoliticians Will Fall,” Says Other Santos
Posted by Colin Brayton on May 10, 2007
The other Santos: All in the family.
“Caerán muchos más políticos vinculados a los ‘paras’”, dijo Ministro de Defensa a El País de España: The Colombian defense minister tells El País (Spain) that “many politicians with ties to the paras will fall.”
Juan Manuel Santos, quien participa en Madrid en la XXV Conferencia Internacional contra el tráfico de drogas, aseguró que el escándalo de la ‘parapolítica’ apenas comienza.
Juan Manuel Santos, who is participating in the XXV International Convention on Drug Trafficking, assured the Madrid daily that the parapolitics scandal has only just begun.
This Santos is the first cousin of the Vice President, and the son of the owner and editor of El Tiempo — who inherited the job from his father, who ran the paper for 50 years. Sort of a Ruy Mesquita of Bogotá.
“El presidente sabe que el proceso es traumático, pero también necesario, es una catarsis para que la democracia salga fortalecida… Pase lo que pase, salpique a quien salpique”, afirmó Santos, en entrevista con el periodista Fernando Gualdoni.
“The president knows the process is traumatic, but also necessary, it is a catharsis so that democracy can emerge stronger … come what may, sting who it may,” said Santos, in an interview with journalist Fernando Gualdoni.
Uribe may be implicated himself, according to the opposition.
El artículo de El País cita igualmente las declaraciones del vicepresidente Francisco Santos, en entrevista con el canal RCN, en el sentido de que 30 o 40 parlamentarios irían a prisión por sus vínculos con paramilitares.
The article also quotes the statements of Vice President Francisco Santos in an interview with RCN, to the effect that 30 or 40 congressmembers would be going to prison for ties to paramilitaries.
Santos también se refiere a Venezuela y Ecuador, sobre los cuales afirma que no fueron buenas las decisiones de expulsar a la DEA, tomada por el primero, y no permitir desde 2009 que siga operando la base aérea de Manta, tomada por el segundo.
Santos also referred to Venezuela and Ecuador, saying the former’s decision to expel the U.S. DEA, and the latter’s to close the Manta air base to the U.S. starting in 2009, were not good ones.
El Ministro declaró que Estados Unidos no le ha solicitado a Colombia el traslado de las operaciones de la base de Manta, pero que si lo hace el país no tendría problema en aceptarlo.
The Minister said that the U.S. has not asked Colombia to take over the operations run out of Manta, but if asked, Colombia would have no problem in accepting.
I had not heard that Uncle Hugo had booted the DEA.
I know he said Verizon was working with spooks to spy on him when be booted them out of CANTV, the national phone company.
What is the state of Venezuela’s international law-enforcement cooperation on The Traffic, anyway? Venezuela is about 99% spooky no-man’s land, right? You never read about this.
