
Colombia: ongoing state collaboration with paras?
The dark days of state collaboration with Colombia’s murderous paramilitary groups were recalled with the arrest in New York of Javier Valle Anaya, former sub-director of BogotĂĄ’s Administrative Security Department (DAS), a now-disbanded intelligence agency that was found to be feeding information to the paras. Valle Anaya was detained on an immigration violation, but may face extradition to Colombia, where he is wanted in connection with the 2004 assassination of a human rights activist in Barranquilla. Ironically, the arrest comes just as a new scandal has emerged concerning an illegal network of chuzadasâColombian slang for eavesdroppers. Retired National Police general Humberto Guatibonza was arrested in BogotĂĄ, charged with running a chuzada ring that spied on labor activistsâparticularly members of the airline workers union, ACDAC. (Photo via Contagio Radio)