Suspenden a coronel del ejército por vínculos con paramilitares        
BBC Mundo (Londres) Colombia: coronel suspendido

El ministro de Defensa de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, dijo que un coronel del ejército fue suspendido de sus labores como parte de una investigación acerca de supuestos vínculos entre importantes figuras públicas y paramilitares de extrema derecha. Santos dijo que se sospechaba la participación del coronel en actos de corrupción, abusos de derechos humanos, falsificación de resultados militares contra insurgentes, y vínculos con el jefe paramilitar Rodrigo Tovar, conocido como "Jorge 40". ver>>


La guerra sucia en Colombia
The Washington Post (Washington) Cleaning Up Colombia's Dirty War

WASHINGTON -- Since Jan. 15, former paramilitary commander Salvatore Mancuso has horrified his fellow Colombians with detailed accounts of his murderous profession. Mancuso has admitted to killing more than 300 people, a fraction of the number of deaths that experts believe he was involved in as the architect of some of the worst atrocities in Colombia's four-decade-old conflict.Mancuso is offering his testimony in exchange for a reduced prison sentence -- eight years maximum. He is the first paramilitary leader to do so as part of President Alvaro Uribe's peace deal with the right-wing militias. ver>>