AUC organization
also: Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, AUC paramilitary death squads, A-U-C, United Self-Defense Forces of Columbia, the AUC, AUC organization, Auto Defense United Colombia, United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
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Claims (16)
Carlos Castano laundered_money_for
AUC book_quoted
“The failed effort to recruit Castano is of interest because the Kent memo alleges that one of the corrupt agents from the Bogota DEA office was caught sometime in 2004 on a wiretap talking about money laundering for that same organization, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 5 @ 56:16
Carlos Castano headed
AUC documented
“Colombia's chief paramilitary leader whose family was major drug traffickers. In a rare television interview, Castano stated that 70% of the income for his group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, the AUC, came from drugs. In July…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 26:11
AUC covered_up
FARC host_asserted
“busting or the Colombian government busting, and I'm going to use that in air quotes, a FARC lab was a hoax. What the DEA would do and what the Colombian government, this AUC organization, the real, the Cali cartel and the Medellin cartel, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 1:12:46
DEA laundered_money_for
AUC book_quoted
“The AUC also committed over 100 massacres in 2001, a tactic it used to displace large portions of peasant populations to grow coca, unquote. Kent also said that during the wiretap, the corrupt Bogota DEA agent discusses his involvement in l…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 5 @ 14:44
AUC assassinated
FARC book_quoted
“various people in the Colombian military, it has fielded death squads responsible for murdering thousands of Colombians. The following is from a 2004 report prepared by Congress. Quote, the AUC targets real and perceived supporters of the r…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 5 @ 13:41
AUC assassinated
Libyan National Army book_quoted
“They also target National Liberation Army, ELN, as well as political activities, police officials, and judges. The group is known for its brutality and has killed more civilians than insurgents have killed. In 2001, the AUC killed at least …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 5 @ 14:13
Borgonzoli member_of
AUC book_quoted
“in Cali Man, that operation, as a cooperating source in order to assure a reduced sentence for himself. Borgonzoli also was a close associate of Carlos Castano, an accused narco trafficker and at the time the leader of the Colombian murdero…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 5 @ 53:56
Colin Powell designated_as_terrorist_organization
AUC documented
“Secretary of State Colin Powell finally placed the right-wing paramilitary AUC, Auto Defense United Colombia, on the list of foreign terrorist organizations, recognizing their role in both the rule violence and drug trafficking. General Gar…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 14:08
Carlos Castano founded
AUC book_quoted
“The traffickers put up the money and the generals contracted for Israeli and British mercenaries to come to Colombia to run the death squad school. A leading graduate was Carlos Castano. And we talked about him. We will talk about him in de…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1 @ 14:08
AUC carried_out_attack
FARC host_asserted
“any civilians that they thought were sympathizers. It didn't matter, just like in Vietnam, whether they were or not. You just had to be accused of it. Human rights groups contended that the AUC and Colombian armed forces were responsible fo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8 @ 3:59
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
AUC member_of
Colombia host_asserted
“labor, popular, and peasant movements that dare to question the development of any oligarch project. Resistance from the FARC would spell further retaliatory action from the narco state. The AUC paramilitary death squads in Colombia are dir…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 7 @ 26:46
Baroque Vega laundered_money_for
AUC book_quoted
“was extorting money from Colombian narco-traffickers by promising them that with the help of supposedly corrupt DEA agents and prosecutors, he could fix their cases. Erdogan also attempted to inoculate the Bogota DEA office against charges …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 5 @ 52:14
Carlos Castano headed
AUC guest_asserted
“corrupt national police officer as Colonel Danielo Gonzalez. That also included alleged alliance with the paramilitary forces ran by Carlos Castano under the AUC, which was working hand in hand with the CIA. The intelligence arm of the devi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6 @ 15:06
AUC member_of
Devil's Cartel guest_asserted
“This so-called Devil's Cartel was an alliance of the North Valley cartel traffickers, many of them former Colombian national police officers. You know, the ones I saw on the steps at Fort Benning? Yeah, those guys. Along with some of people…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6 @ 14:32
Baroque Vega member_of
AUC host_asserted
“Smear campaign against Naranjo. General Oscar Naranjo, director of the Colombian National Police, said Baroque Vega, a drug trafficker who had served time in the U.S. and now resided in Miami, was conspiring with Don Mario and other extradi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 7 @ 17:29
Mentions (34)
▶ 26:46
labor, popular, and peasant movements that dare to question the development of any oligarch project. Resistance from the FARC would spell further retaliatory action from the narco state. The AUC paramilitary death squads in Colombia are dir…
▶ 27:21
combat quote-unquote FARC rebels. However, the AUC is also an important component of the Colombian narco-military network. The FARC campaign has seen the Colombian state, backed by Washington, adopt a variety of measures to engage the guerr…
▶ 14:08
The traffickers put up the money and the generals contracted for Israeli and British mercenaries to come to Colombia to run the death squad school. A leading graduate was Carlos Castano. And we talked about him. We will talk about him in de…
▶ 14:37
A-U-C, United Self-Defense Forces of Columbia. We'll refer to them in the future as A-U-C. From the U.S.'s perspective, officially, the A-U-C was supposedly the good guys and the FARC was the bad guys. But as you will see, the A-U-C is a de…
▶ 17:48
And understanding that there's precedent for all of this makes today seem, it makes today make a lot more sense. Okay. The AUC operated with impunity until 1989 when their activities were outlawed. But Human Rights Watch in a detailed repor…
▶ 23:14
In the resulting symbiosis between the military assistance, the FARC, and a flourishing narco economy, the CIA became more and more directly involved in drug trafficking. For example, it is not disputed that in 1993, while working for the C…
▶ 3:59
any civilians that they thought were sympathizers. It didn't matter, just like in Vietnam, whether they were or not. You just had to be accused of it. Human rights groups contended that the AUC and Colombian armed forces were responsible fo…
▶ 4:30
the people in the rural area. Others targeted in urban areas included trade unions, university lecturers, and students, human rights workers, they killed Catholic priests, and anyone supporting or even thought to sympathize with the FARC. C…
▶ 8:23
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…
▶ 12:21
and Interior Minister stated that Colombians should be prepared to sacrifice all civil rights for greater security. Sound familiar? The AUC was allowed to infiltrate the administration, faculty, and student body at all of the universities a…
▶ 14:17
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…
▶ 15:50
created a political and financial vacuum that rocked the narco elite with scandals, extraditions, and division among the paramilitary groups because they just couldn't defeat them. Drug traffickers competed with one another by establishing …
▶ 16:18
of the paramilitary organizations. With the successor, paramilitary groups like the Black Eagles increased internal warfare for territorial control between the emerging factions, plus the mysterious death of Mancuso's predecessor, Carlos Ca…
▶ 16:18
of the paramilitary organizations. With the successor, paramilitary groups like the Black Eagles increased internal warfare for territorial control between the emerging factions, plus the mysterious death of Mancuso's predecessor, Carlos Ca…
▶ 16:50
The state had no interest in pursuing paramilitary groups or even the drug traffickers because they were supporting them. While at the same time, the AUC alongside the Army were unsuccessful in reining in their paramilitary groups that they…
▶ 49:20
that it becomes ridiculous. Just the fall guy. Which is why I have to explain all of these details to you guys so you can understand how farcical the lies that we've been fed about Columbia and the FARC is. Because without these details, it…
▶ 49:53
The United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, called the AUC, which I talked about last week, which is a paramilitary umbrella organization, renamed the Black Eagles. In what is known as the shell game strategy, business elites from the chemi…
▶ 56:13
Over the years, the AUC, which is the state-sanctioned traffickers, have worked to control the coast, knowing that's where all the dope has got to leave from. They have their hands in every bit of dope. It has to, at a minimum, be authorize…
▶ 1:12:46
busting or the Colombian government busting, and I'm going to use that in air quotes, a FARC lab was a hoax. What the DEA would do and what the Colombian government, this AUC organization, the real, the Cali cartel and the Medellin cartel, …
▶ 14:08
Secretary of State Colin Powell finally placed the right-wing paramilitary AUC, Auto Defense United Colombia, on the list of foreign terrorist organizations, recognizing their role in both the rule violence and drug trafficking. General Gar…
▶ 14:43
But the State Department sanctions against the AUC, like suspending visas and putting other names on the visa watch list, are unlikely to do much to curb the terror campaign. Nor is the U.S. likely to prevent U.S. corporations in Colombia f…
▶ 26:11
Colombia's chief paramilitary leader whose family was major drug traffickers. In a rare television interview, Castano stated that 70% of the income for his group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, the AUC, came from drugs. In July…
▶ 26:39
pounds of cocaine worth $53 million in the U.S. The police attributed the drug shipment to the AUC, not the FARC. Colombian intelligence sources estimated in 2001 that 40% of Colombian cocaine exports were controlled by the CIA's paramilita…
▶ 13:09
Sometime in 2004, discussing criminal activity related to a paramilitary group called United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia. Its Spanish initials is AUC. The group at the time was widely recognized to be involved in narco-trafficking and a…
▶ 13:41
various people in the Colombian military, it has fielded death squads responsible for murdering thousands of Colombians. The following is from a 2004 report prepared by Congress. Quote, the AUC targets real and perceived supporters of the r…
▶ 14:13
They also target National Liberation Army, ELN, as well as political activities, police officials, and judges. The group is known for its brutality and has killed more civilians than insurgents have killed. In 2001, the AUC killed at least …
▶ 14:44
The AUC also committed over 100 massacres in 2001, a tactic it used to displace large portions of peasant populations to grow coca, unquote. Kent also said that during the wiretap, the corrupt Bogota DEA agent discusses his involvement in l…
▶ 53:56
in Cali Man, that operation, as a cooperating source in order to assure a reduced sentence for himself. Borgonzoli also was a close associate of Carlos Castano, an accused narco trafficker and at the time the leader of the Colombian murdero…
▶ 54:24
the CIA's trained paramilitary group. Sometime between 98 and early 2000, using his connections to the CIA-trained paramilitary forces, Borgonzali attempted to set up a meeting between one of Tinsley's agents, Castillo, and AUC leader, Carl…
▶ 54:52
He is a close associate of Castano, and because of the relationship, Castano requested Borgonzoli's assistance in arranging a meeting with Mr. Castano. Note that Mr. Castano is the leader of a paramilitary group identified as the UAUC. Mr. …
▶ 56:16
The failed effort to recruit Castano is of interest because the Kent memo alleges that one of the corrupt agents from the Bogota DEA office was caught sometime in 2004 on a wiretap talking about money laundering for that same organization, …
▶ 1:01:11
Fidel's disappearance took over after his disappearance, uniting and strengthening Colombians paramilitary armies under the banner of AUC, a killing machine that vied with guerrilla groups for control of the country's drug trade and which f…
▶ 14:32
This so-called Devil's Cartel was an alliance of the North Valley cartel traffickers, many of them former Colombian national police officers. You know, the ones I saw on the steps at Fort Benning? Yeah, those guys. Along with some of people…
▶ 17:29
Smear campaign against Naranjo. General Oscar Naranjo, director of the Colombian National Police, said Baroque Vega, a drug trafficker who had served time in the U.S. and now resided in Miami, was conspiring with Don Mario and other extradi…