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AMERICA’S MAN President Álvaro Uribe. In 1991, a declassified report by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency revealed the then-senator Uribe as having "worked for the Medellín Cartel" as a "close personal friend" of the cartel's drug baron, Pablo Escobar. To date, 62 of his political allies have been investigated for close collaboration with paramilitaries and their death squads. A feature of his rule has been the fate of journalists who have illuminated his shadows. Last year, four leading journalists received death threats after criticizing Uribe. Since 2002, at least 31 journalists have been assassinated in Colombia.

Uribe's other habit is smearing trade unions and human rights workers as "collaborators with the FARC." This marks them. Colombia's death squads, wrote Jenny Pearce, author of the acclaimed Under the Eagle: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean, "are increasingly active, confident that the president has been so successful in rallying the country against the FARC that little attention will shift to their atrocities."