“To ease the tension, Don Mario gave the colonel COP100 million and sent several men to Villavicencio and Granada (in Meta) to find young people to present as false positives. The paramilitaries scouted bars and night clubs and returned with five to seven drunk men, who were the next day murdered and presented as guerillas killed in combat by the army.”
Nope, it ain’t about faulty pregnancy tests. This article discusses one of the biggest stains on Colombia’s already shoddy human rights record. False Positives are Colombian citizens, mostly civilians, mostly young males from poor areas, who have been murdered both by the military and the paramilitary, then presented officially as guerrillero casualties, inflating the alleged accomplishments in the war against drugs (and now terror) that the Colombia government and its legal and illegal allies are knee-deep in.
This is the kind of stuff the just-approved free trade agreement with the U.S. is condoning in saying that Colombia has fixed its H.R. record enough to do business with. (not that business between the two has ever been slow.)
Peace.
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