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Luke Taylor in Bogotá

‘Insult to his victims’: outrage as warlord appointed ‘peace manager’ in Colombia

Colombian paramilitary warlord Salvatore Mancuso is escorted by US DEA agents in May 2008.
The Colombian paramilitary warlord Salvatore Mancuso is escorted by US DEA agents in May 2008. Photograph: Alan Diaz/AP

Salvatore Mancuso is one of the most notorious figures in Colombia’s six decades of conflict, responsible for some of the most heinous of crimes during the darkest chapters in the country’s history.

As a senior commander of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) – the country’s largest rightwing death squad – he ordered forced disappearances, sexual violence and massacres of civilians.

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