https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/14/ivan_cepeda_colombia_uribe_guilty_verdict
This is a topic that I've already touched on in the past, however this court case has simply confirmed not only what was already known but expanded upon the nature of the corruption and cover up.
The fact that government-sponsored Right-wing paramilitaries were also involved in the drug trade and massacres is hardly news - nor that some of them worked with and at the behest of corporate interests - often connected to Wall Street. And yet you would never know it if you limit yourself to certain media outlets.
What I immediately thought of upon reading this was the Evangelical whitewash of the situation that occurs all too often in American-based media. They tend to blame everything on the FARC, other Left-wing paramilitaries, and the narcotraffickers, ignoring the role of the state and corporate sponsored Right-wing paramilitaries.
After functioning for decades as a faithful satrap or client state of the American Empire, the situation in Colombia has reversed. Great upheaval led to an electoral victory for the Left and now the nation is in a state of turmoil as the US scrambles to back its candidates and to sabotage any attempt to dig up skeletons of past corruption and evil deeds. In 1949, there were some within the American Establishment asking 'Who lost China?' - something similar is happening right now with Colombia.
Alvaro Uribe (president from 2002-2010) was the tip of the American Empire's spear in Latin America and Colombia in particular, and in addition to his corruption charges, he has been implicated of having deep ties with the (often US and Israeli-trained) paramilitaries and the many atrocities they committed - something well known for the past twenty-plus years for anyone paying attention.
Christian media outlets and even networks like FOX (that might spend an occasional minute or two on such stories) have misled their audiences by painting the Colombian conflict as one-sided and in every case they have neglected to elaborate on the larger context of these ongoing wars, and how the US operates with figures such as Uribe - who also after a post-presidential year on the faculty at Georgetown, returned to Colombia and served as a senator until his indictment.
Though much of the attention has shifted to Mexico, there is still plenty of drug-related activity and organised crime operating out of Colombia, often with ties to law enforcement and the state. But just in case the US is unable to reverse the situation, Washington has been seeking new allies and client states in Latin America - particularly in Central America. There are ongoing battles connected to the politics of Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Brazil. Long opposed to US interests, Argentina under Milei and Ecuador under Noboa have flipped over (at least in part) to the US column. The scandals connected to these nations and their ties to US interests are already in the works, some already known, others yet to be revealed.
See also:
https://pilgrimunderground.blogspot.com/2024/07/israel-death-squads-and-colombia.html
https://pilgrimunderground.blogspot.com/2019/10/rolling-back-pink-tide-scandal-in.html
https://pilgrimunderground.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-violence-in-colombia-ignored-by.html
https://pilgrimunderground.blogspot.com/2023/09/bp-and-right-wing-paramilitaries-in.html
https://pilgrimunderground.blogspot.com/2025/06/noboa-inaugurated-and-ecuadors-future.html
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