A ruling issued by a U.S. court on September 27 points to a broad range of paramilitary crimes. Judge Edwin Torres of Florida’s Southern District found paramilitary chieftain Carlos Mario Jiménez, alias Macaco, to be responsible for extrajudicial killings and torture in Colombia. Relying on declassified intelligence documents provided by the National Security Agency, the judge implicated Colombian state agencies. More

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