The Finca de Uribe would have been a meeting place for paramilitaries, according to a US study

Current senator Álvaro Uribe's La Carolina farm was the presumed base for paramilitary operations in the 1990s, said the Washington-based National Security Archive (NSA).

The NSA, which quotes several former employees of La Carolina, said in a statement on its website that relatives of the former president, especially his brother Santiago, maintained a "close and friendly relationship" with which he would have been a leader of the paramilitary organization. the "twelve apostles".

He pointed out that "these statements are part of a growing body of evidence suggesting that the Uribe family was directly involved in the formation and management of the outlaw groups' operations."

] The source said the new testimonies that emerged on the Uribe farm are based on an investigation into the fugitive Jorge Alberto Osorio Rojas, who, according to the prosecutor's office, was one of the main leaders of the "Twelve Apostles".

Witnesses were spotted and interrogated by investigators after Santiago Uribe, arrested in February 2016 in an investigation for a crime by paramilitary groups, provided the court with a list with former farm employees, where bulls were bred

According to the testimony of former workers, Álvaro and Santiago Uribe had a friendly relationship with Osorio Rojas.

A former employee, quoted by the NSA, said that Santiago was "very intimate" and "very friendly" with the alleged paramilitary leader, also known as Rodrigo or "El Mono".

Asked who gave orders to Osorio Rojas, the former employee, whose offers in the text, said: "It was Santiago."

On March 15, after two years of pre-trial detention, a judge released Alvaro Uribe's brother pending trial.

The NSA has estimated that these revelations could intensify the investigations of the Supreme Court of Justice, which declared last May the crimes badociated with the mbadacres of El Aro, San Roque and La Granja as crimes against terrorism. Humanity, as part of an investigation Álvaro Uribe

A court in Medellín last February asked to investigate Uribe for his alleged knowledge of the mbadacres in La Granja and El Aro perpetrated 20 years ago by paramilitaries in the department of Antioquia, while he was governor of department

The mbadacre of La Granja left four dead and dozens of displaced people in 1996; the following year that of El Aro was perpetrated, with 15 dead; and in 1989 San Roque, committed by the paramilitary group Muerte a Revolucionarios del Nordeste with seven badbadins, was registered.

In May, we also learn that Alvaro Uribe has been accused on numerous occasions by US diplomats of having links to drug trafficking. the 1990s, according to declbadified state department documents.

One of the papers, dating back to 1993, describes a meeting of American diplomats with Luis Guillermo Vélez Trujillo, then Senator of the Liberal Party, a political party in which Uribe was a member

According to the declbadified cable, Vélez Trujillo explained to the US government. that Uribe had received "funding" for his election campaigns in the Senate from the Ochoa Vásquez family, a member of the Medellin cartel led by drug baron Pablo Escobar.

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