dirty laundry?

"No paramilitary commander operates alone. They operate with the military, and the man in charge then was General Montoya."

- Sister Rosa Cadavid, a Catholic nun in the Medellin neighborhood who has publicly denounced operations in which the Colombian military was actively cooperating with right-wing paramilitary groups -- which the U.S. has designated as terrorist organizations. As The Washington Post reports, "A former paramilitary fighter has said in special judicial proceedings that [Gen. Mario] Montoya, who heads Colombia's army, collaborated with death squads .... His testimony, along with that of at least four paramilitary commanders, is illuminating the links between Colombia's potent, U.S.-backed military and its brutal paramilitary proxies." (Source: The Washington Post)