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Since I seem to be in Latin America week on Decoder, here's the recent letter from the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to Nova Scotia MP Scott Brison about his assertion paramilitary groups no longer exist in Colombia, other than narco-traffickers with no links to authorities.
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Linda Diebel is a veteran political reporter who worked across Canada, including on Parliament Hill, and as the Toronto Star's bureau chief in both Washington and Latin America. She has written two books, Betrayed: The Assassination of Digna Ochoa, and Stéphane Dion: Against the Current.
She's been described as "that mean Diebel person" by President George H.W. Bush and someone "with a good head on her shoulders" by Noam Chomsky. They're probably both right.
Email: ldiebel@thestar.ca
BAGOTA, Oct 9 (IPS) - A declasified U.S. State Department cable dated January 1999 blames Columbian soldiers for the killings of civilians rescued by the military operation to retake the Palace of Justice from guerrillas who had seized the building in November 1985.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48797
The document was obtained by the Washington-based National Security Archive (NSA), which requests and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
The 1999 cable had been classified until January 2024 by then U.S. ambassador to Columbia Curtis Kamman.
Columbia: Yours to discover, if you dare.
Posted by: Frank Docherty | October 12, 2009 at 05:19 PM