Uribe ally accused of ties with militias
A political ally of President Alvaro Uribe is under investigation for allegedly doing business with illegal right-wing militias as head of a company that sells fruit for shipment to the United States and Europe. Juan Manuel Campo, a member of the Uribe-allied Conservative Party’s executive committee, heads a company that supplies 40 tons of plantain bananas a week from land cleared of its rightful owners through intimidation by banned paramilitaries. Full Story