Academic asked Uribe for help before murder

[Judi Lynn]

Academic asked Uribe for help before murder
Friday, 16 September 2011 16:06
James Bargent

Murdered academic Alfredo Correa de Andreis wrote to then President Alvaro Uribe asking for help after he was arrested by the Colombian secret service and accused of collaboration with guerrilla insurgents in 2004.

In the letter, which was published on Friday by online magazine Kien&Ke, Correa vehemently denied charges of “rebellion” and secret collusion with the rebels saying “I am an open book.”

He added that the allegations against him were “not only at odds with the truth but seem completely insane, beyond logic and reason.”

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Correa was a sociologist specializing in conflict negotiations. Shortly after the DAS released him, he was killed by paramilitary gunmen. On Wednesday, courts sentenced ex-DAS chief Jorge Noguera Cotes to 25 years in prison after he was found guilty of colluding with “Jorge 40's” paramilitary block in his murder.

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