Posted on 05/05/2024 8:17:04 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 2003, the Colombian military mounted a raid in an attempt to free 13 hostages of the narco-trafficking guerrilla organization FARC — causing the rebels to summarily execute their hostages. (Three survived.) Most notable among the victims of what Colombian President Alvaro Uribe called “another massacre” in that country’s long-running civil war were two men:
Former Defense Minister Gilberto Echeverri Mejia (Spanish Wikipedia link) Antioquia Gov. Guillermo Gaviria Correa (pictured) Scion of a political family, Gaviria had become a notable exponent of nonviolence; he and Echeverri had been captured leading an unarmed, 1,000-person solidarity march in April of 2002.
It was part of the governor’s visionary (or quixotic) bid to transform his society.....
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