Alvaro Uribe person
also: Uribe, President Uribe, General Uribe, Uribe Vales, Alvaro Uribe Vales, Uribi, Uribe Velez, Araby Velez, Erebi Velez, Araby
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Claims (19)
Alvaro Uribe founded
Plan Colombia documented
“not the 580 tons announced by the U.S. State Department and DEA. So, nearly double, and our State Department lied to us. Big shocker. In 2004, President Uribe and the Bush administration negotiated an extension to Plan Columbia, named Plan …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 7 @ 9:36
Alvaro Uribe founded
Plan Patriot documented
“launched an all-out offensive named Plan Patriot, which imposed Uribe's democratic security measures, viewed by some as a state-sponsored terrorist campaign. In other words, he basically declared martial law. In October 2002, reports were l…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 7 @ 11:59
Alvaro Uribe pardoned
Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela host_asserted
“grandson, I believe it is, is the guy that was shot in June and just died a couple of weeks ago, running for president too. So this is the family of drug traffickers posing as politicians. So under Uribe, who released the Cali cartel's foun…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 51:36
Alvaro Uribe promoted_creation_of
Convivir host_asserted
“Colombia's second largest province and one-time home to the infamous Medellin drug cartel. There, Erebi Velez promoted the creation of the Controversial Conviviers, and I'm going to spell that, C-O-N-V-I-V-I-R-S. They were quote-unquote sel…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 10:24
Alvaro Uribe member_of
Strategic Plan for Venezuela documented
“The document was prepared by a D.C. consulting firm and several Colombian foundations. Columbia. That's weird. Including one led by the country's former president, Alvaro Uribe. Uribe. The guy that was in bed with the narco elite. That Urib…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 51:21
Alvaro Uribe ordered_assassination_of
FARC host_asserted
“Similarly, in Colombia, this method had been applied to drive all of the rural FARC supporters out of their homes into the countryside in order to separate and isolate the FARC. In 2002, Uribe declared emergency powers, i.e., I'm going to b…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8 @ 1:56
Alvaro Uribe funded
AUC host_asserted
“The AUC may not be a proxy army of the United States, but it functions as a vanguard force of the counterinsurgency strategy in the Colombian countryside. Yeah, they may not be a proxy. They're just trained and funded by us. But how would t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8 @ 8:23
Alvaro Uribe funded
RAND Corporation host_asserted
“Two million people. President Uribe based the creation of this civilian militia upon the RAND study, another CIA think tank, called the Columbian Labyrinth, which detailed a plan for a civil defense counterinsurgency structure made up of or…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8 @ 9:53
Alvaro Uribe funded
The Colombian Labyrinth host_asserted
“Two million people. President Uribe based the creation of this civilian militia upon the RAND study, another CIA think tank, called the Columbian Labyrinth, which detailed a plan for a civil defense counterinsurgency structure made up of or…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8 @ 9:53
Gabriel Ramón Díaz removed_from_power
Alvaro Uribe documented
“but not charged for the disappearance of the cocaine shipment was removed from his post by President Uribe. According to the Miami Herald, which was infiltrated with CIA as well, quote, Diaz has claimed that he delivered to a DEA office at …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 6 @ 32:31
Alvaro Uribe removed_from_power
Medellín host_asserted
“That was available, and it began providing known traffickers such as Escobar and the Ocas and the Castanos access to the cocoa. When Alvaro Uribe's attendance at a Medellin cartel meeting at Escobar's ranch, Napoleon, another one of the dru…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 42:39
Alvaro Uribe appointed
Colombia host_asserted
“The event would have destroyed most political careers. But between 95 and 97, Alvaro Uribe was the governor of one of the big areas. And in 2002, he goes on to become president of Colombia, a known drug trafficker. All right. While he was g…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 43:43
Alvaro Uribe member_of
Colombia guest_asserted
“I mean, things are getting worse in Colombia. They're not as bad as when I lived here in 93 and 94. But they've definitely gotten worse since Uribe left. It was kind of the peak of security in Colombia at the time. And he has some really we…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 1:37:17
Alvaro Uribe covered_up
American Red Cross host_asserted
“involving the use of the Red Cross emblem used during military rescue operations against the FARC. So, in other words, Uribe was putting the Red Cross flying military missions on helicopters while they were attacking the FARC. Yeah, but hey…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 9 @ 46:31
Alvaro Uribe appointed
Medellín host_asserted
“Alvaro Uribe's wealth and connections to the underworld through his father practically assured him a place in the new narco state. During Alvaro Uribe's four-month tenure as mayor of the local Medellin area in 1982, the city was known as th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 41:38
Alvaro Uribe covered_up
Parapolitica scandal host_asserted
“in that because a lot of scandals broke out because he was revealing what his predecessor had done to include bad things to Venezuela. Some of that included an ongoing Parapolitica scandal in which Santos had repeatedly said Uribe will not …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 9 @ 46:00
George W. Bush administration pressured
Alvaro Uribe host_asserted
“They operate with impunity at the time. So, under the pressure from George W. Bush administration, President Uribe neutralized Chavez's growing influence in the Colombian conflict by dismissing his mediating efforts that had commenced in 20…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 9 @ 44:59
Alvaro Uribe appointed
Aerocivil host_asserted
“granting pilot license to drug traffickers as head of aviation company Aerocivil, A-E-R-O-C-I-V-I-L. With the support of his father, Alberto Uribe Sierra, he made his most important contacts with the emerging narco state as head of Aerocivi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 39:14
Alvaro Uribe ordered_assassination_of
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“Colombian government and their CIA backers against President Chavez, which, of course, is a bad thing. They were involved in electoral fraud, doctoring police and judicial records to erase paramilitary death squad hits. It also says the mos…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 9 @ 47:01
Mentions (51)
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but not charged for the disappearance of the cocaine shipment was removed from his post by President Uribe. According to the Miami Herald, which was infiltrated with CIA as well, quote, Diaz has claimed that he delivered to a DEA office at …
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not the 580 tons announced by the U.S. State Department and DEA. So, nearly double, and our State Department lied to us. Big shocker. In 2004, President Uribe and the Bush administration negotiated an extension to Plan Columbia, named Plan …
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During the negotiations, President Uribe extolled the advances achieved on the war on drugs and the war on terror and asserted that the U.S. Capitol injected into Colombia had succeeded in making them a safer country, safer for the elite, a…
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After the terrorist attacks on 9-11, George W. Bush and Colombian President Pastrana intensified the armed campaign against the FARC insurgents' support base within the context of the global war on terror. Because now they're not just drug …
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launched an all-out offensive named Plan Patriot, which imposed Uribe's democratic security measures, viewed by some as a state-sponsored terrorist campaign. In other words, he basically declared martial law. In October 2002, reports were l…
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were on orders to eliminate all high-ranking officers of the FARC and scattering those who escaped to the remote corners of the Amazon. But the operation failed to force the FARC into strategic retreat. During Uribe's presidency, coca produ…
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U.S. oligarchs' installation of large hotels. In major cities, a desperate, repressed, and impoverished working class and peasantry were forced to live on starvation wages without protection or services. Liberal legislation enacted by Presi…
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especially in surveillance and communication. In 2004, President Uribe met with George W. Bush in Washington to ask the U.S. to remove its limit on the number of U.S. service members and contractors in Colombia. Bush agreed to increase the …
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private military contractors to 800 and 600, respectively. Thus, presidential decisions changed the way covert operations were being conducted. Rather than working closely with the national military network, U.S. covert operations service m…
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U.S. Army Special Operations Command provides the forces, SOUTHCOM coordinates, and the military group links all of the operations, maintaining liaison with the Colombian military. Former members within the Colombian military command, such …
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To the political system in Colombia, the political career of Alvaro Uribe Velez, you know, the guy whose son was just shot in June and died a few days ago. The country's former president and a leading. What's the better word? They use a Spa…
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granting pilot license to drug traffickers as head of aviation company Aerocivil, A-E-R-O-C-I-V-I-L. With the support of his father, Alberto Uribe Sierra, he made his most important contacts with the emerging narco state as head of Aerocivi…
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uniform. Yeribi Sierra, who owned extensive cattle ranches in that area and became a real estate intermediary for the traffickers, was connected by marriage to the family called Ocas. O-C-H-O-A-S. They were an elite family that joined the n…
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the original Medellin cartel. When Pablo Escobar launched his version of the Medellin cartel in 1982, Uribe Sierra organized an exclusive horse race to raise funds. When he was killed in 1983, his son, Alvaro Uribe, flew to his ranch in Esc…
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Alvaro Uribe's wealth and connections to the underworld through his father practically assured him a place in the new narco state. During Alvaro Uribe's four-month tenure as mayor of the local Medellin area in 1982, the city was known as th…
▶ 42:39
That was available, and it began providing known traffickers such as Escobar and the Ocas and the Castanos access to the cocoa. When Alvaro Uribe's attendance at a Medellin cartel meeting at Escobar's ranch, Napoleon, another one of the dru…
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He was removed from his post as mayor. The political implications, however, was far from negative as the fallout permitted him to become associated with the narco elite. So that's how you fail upwards in Columbia. Oh, you're into narcotics …
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The event would have destroyed most political careers. But between 95 and 97, Alvaro Uribe was the governor of one of the big areas. And in 2002, he goes on to become president of Colombia, a known drug trafficker. All right. While he was g…
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government insisted that fumigation had been effective and pointed to results from other surveys conducted by the UN Office of Drug and Crime. They are the only studies that gave Uribe's argument any credence, both of which were drastically…
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always those produced by the U.S. government. The drug diplomacy between Colombia and the U.S. can best be understood by a negotiated relationship, that is, quid pro quo, between U.S. imperialism, the narco elite, and the mutual dependence …
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They operate with impunity at the time. So, under the pressure from George W. Bush administration, President Uribe neutralized Chavez's growing influence in the Colombian conflict by dismissing his mediating efforts that had commenced in 20…
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in that because a lot of scandals broke out because he was revealing what his predecessor had done to include bad things to Venezuela. Some of that included an ongoing Parapolitica scandal in which Santos had repeatedly said Uribe will not …
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involving the use of the Red Cross emblem used during military rescue operations against the FARC. So, in other words, Uribe was putting the Red Cross flying military missions on helicopters while they were attacking the FARC. Yeah, but hey…
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Colombian government and their CIA backers against President Chavez, which, of course, is a bad thing. They were involved in electoral fraud, doctoring police and judicial records to erase paramilitary death squad hits. It also says the mos…
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The Cali cartel simply took over Escobar's market share and a new era of trafficking was established and linked to the narco elite, the Colombian state, and the U.S. This became ever more apparent under President Alvaro Uribe Velez. And aga…
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grandson, I believe it is, is the guy that was shot in June and just died a couple of weeks ago, running for president too. So this is the family of drug traffickers posing as politicians. So under Uribe, who released the Cali cartel's foun…
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Similarly, in Colombia, this method had been applied to drive all of the rural FARC supporters out of their homes into the countryside in order to separate and isolate the FARC. In 2002, Uribe declared emergency powers, i.e., I'm going to b…
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Uribe justified these measures as a means to fight terrorism and to confront the FARC. What was unofficial policy became formalized, according to government-funded studies by the Commission on Ways to Overcome Violence. Politically motivate…
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who were directly financed and running the paramilitary units doing it. In 2003, President Uribe initiated his policy of democratic security. That's an oxymoron. Which created a civil defense peasant militia and a spy network of one million…
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Two million people. President Uribe based the creation of this civilian militia upon the RAND study, another CIA think tank, called the Columbian Labyrinth, which detailed a plan for a civil defense counterinsurgency structure made up of or…
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More than half of the taxi drivers in Colombia became spies for the state. In the country's regional airports, armed soldiers were seen wearing hoods to conceal their faces, a modern military attire used by South American military juntas in…
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of a civilian security group that Uribe had supported when he was governor of one of the local provinces. That experience allowed armed civilians to patrol and gather intelligence on their neighbors. Under President Uribe's democratic secur…
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Uribe argued that civilians should be provided with radios, vehicles, and weapons. Quote, initially, they will not have guns because people will kill them to take the weapons. But the defense minister, his successor as president, Juan Manue…
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The Uribi government pushed for a constitutional amendment that would reestablish some of the provisions of the security state, which stripped civilians of their civil liberties in the 1970s and enabled the military to prosecute anyone they…
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requested the Colombian government sign an agreement not to turn any U.S. national over to the International Criminal Court at The Hague. In some ways, the U.S.-sponsored state terrorism in Colombia resembles the political repression in Lat…
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can be seen as a means to legitimize state terrorism by denying any knowledge of the existing narco-military network. After being extradited to the U.S. on charges of drug trafficking in 2008, the former AUC leader, Salvador Mancuso, testif…
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to the paramilitary groups. These revelations led to what became known as the Parapolitica scandal, implicating Uribe's intelligence service chief, Jorge Nagara, with a recent sentence of 25 years for collaborating with paramilitary groups.…
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Current and former members of Congress were implicated. Nearly all members of President Uribe's governing coalition were indicted. Uribe denied all involvement. Billions of dollars of U.S. capital had been pumped into Colombia to supposedly…
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Combat the narcotics industry, revive the Colombian economy, and strengthen democracy with mostly military assistance. President George Bush, chief supporter of Clan Colombia, was the Colombian president, and the Colombian president, Uribe,…
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From 1991, ranked Uribi number 82 on a list of 104 more important Colombian narco-traffickers contracted by the Colombian narcotic cartels for security, transportation, distribution, collection, and enforcement of narcotic operations in bot…
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Alvaro Uribe Vales, a Colombian politician and senator dedicated to the collaboration with the Medellin cartel at high government levels. Uribe was linked to a business involved in narcotic activities in the U.S. His father was murdered in …
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and is a close friend of Pablo Escobar. He has participated in Escobar's political campaign to win a position as assistant parliamentarian. Uribe has been one of the politicians from the Senate who has attacked all forms of extradition trea…
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And I've been digging into, you know how you always tell us to look into the ambassadors and stuff, right? Okay, so I was looking actually into elite individuals in Colombia and Venezuela. And I saw that during the time of Uribe, this one g…
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I mean, things are getting worse in Colombia. They're not as bad as when I lived here in 93 and 94. But they've definitely gotten worse since Uribe left. It was kind of the peak of security in Colombia at the time. And he has some really we…
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So some of the lower offices you may be able to get into, but then you won't find one or they'll assassinate you. There are good politicians that are not owned and controlled by the narcos in Colombia. I firmly believe that. Whether you're …
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The document was prepared by a D.C. consulting firm and several Colombian foundations. Columbia. That's weird. Including one led by the country's former president, Alvaro Uribe. Uribe. The guy that was in bed with the narco elite. That Urib…
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Drafted during a June 2013 meeting of Venezuelan opposition figures and USAID, then director for Latin America, Mark Feierstein in Colombia. So he's stationed in Colombia and they're using Alvaro Uribe as the kind of guy to go to. The plan …
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it seems certain that the violence in Colombia, already exacerbated by decades of U.S. interference, will escalate even further. The new president at the time was last name Uribe Velez, is himself a product of the paramilitary counter-revol…
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Business Week reported in February 2002 that Araby Velez claims that if elected president, he will take a firmer line with the rebels. And by rebels, they mean the people who actually want their land back that had been stolen to plant opium…
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Colombia's second largest province and one-time home to the infamous Medellin drug cartel. There, Erebi Velez promoted the creation of the Controversial Conviviers, and I'm going to spell that, C-O-N-V-I-V-I-R-S. They were quote-unquote sel…
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In other words, they had created death squads. This led the Colombian government to strip the convieres of most of their power. And this is the guy that's now going to run for president of the entire country under the guise of CIA. Business…