A widening scandal in which three federal lawmakers have been jailed for allegedly organizing and benefiting from murderous right-wing militias is now implicating one of President Alvaro Uribe’s closest political allies.
Sen. Alvaro Araujo, brother of Uribe’s foreign minister, acknowledged in a radio interview Friday that he attended a 2004 party at which one of the country’s most feared paramilitary leaders was present. Full Story
