Politicians party on at La Picota prison: W Radio

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Colombia Reports

Politicians party on at La Picota prison: W Radio
Tuesday, 10 May 2011 14:23
Marguerite Cawley

A new party took place over the weekend at Bogota's La Picota prison, a place already infamous for allowing high profile political prisoners to run wild, W Radio reported Tuesday.

The party allegedly occurred Saturday afternoon and went on into the night, and according to information received by the Colombian radio station, a number of former politicians were heavily intoxicated.

Apparently, former bussinessman Eduardo Davila Armenta assaulted fellow prisoner Jaime Bravo, and broke glasses and a door.

Davila Armenta is under investigation for alleged links with paramilitary groups and for the 2007 murder of a woman in Santa Marta. He is the brother of former Magdalena Governor Jose Domingo Davila Armenta, also in prison for paramilitary ties.

Read more: http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/16146-politicians-start-partying-again-at-la-picota-prison-w-radio.html

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Colombia is the world's 3rd largest recipient of US taxpayers' annual financial assistance programs.

[Peace Patriot]

1. Interesting how news of a country in our own hemisphere, with BILLIONS of U.S. taxpayer aid,

gets bumped out of LBN and into the LatAm barrio.

The paramilitary death squads and their politicos are partying because of the utter corruption of the Colombian government that our tax dollars funded and encouraged.

$7 BILLION and counting.

There seems to be quite an "Iron Curtain" on this news here, cuz after the bloody political "cleansing" that the U.S. paid for over the last decade in Colombia, U.S. corporate interests want the payoff: a U.S./Colombia "free trade for the rich" agreement. The corporate "news" wants to paint a picture of Colombia as converted now to democracy and "law and order." This and other evidence to the contrary is simply deleted. But, hey, if Venezuela has a problem of overcrowded prisons, or drought-caused blackouts, or street crime, and the Chavez government doesn't instantly solve it, wow, do we get headline after headline after headline about THAT, highlighted in LBN!

[Judi Lynn]

2. That's the pattern they try to project. The people are all still the same,

doing the same things they did before the "demobilization."

It has even been admitted to be a farce, and there has been testimony in COURT in Colombia by narcotrafficking death squad scum AUC people who related stories of having people act as paramilitaries turning in their guns, going through elaborate charades to make it appear there was a demobilization.

The same things are happening, union workers, human rights activists, others are still being murdered in the same ways, the poor, minority, indigenous people are still being terrorized, murdered, people are STILL being driven out of their homes, off their own property which is stolen and sold to the same multinationals or politicians. It's been pointed out publicly over and over, and yet, since the Colombian government under Uribe has claimed that's all in the past, the US still clings to this official lie, and continues to pump billions of US taxpayers' dollars into the military, into the Colombian government, just as usual.