Mapiripan: A shortcut to hell

By María Cristina Caballero

BOGOTA, July 28, 1997 — A paramilitary incursion from July 14 to 20 this year by private armed groups that combat guerrilla forces has made

Excerpts from this story referencing "Mapiripan":

"… y 14, the very same day that 120 or 150 armed men marched into the town of Mapiripan. The town's penal municipal judge, Leonardo Iván Cortés-Novoa, called th …"

"… the massacre, there are even more questions about what really happened in Mapiripan. Colombia’s Civil Aeronautics Board confirms that on July 12, an Aerolin …"

"… Jose del Guaviare in the country’s southeastern region, near the town of Mapiripan. All indications show that these planes were carrying the very paramilitar …"

"… rched on every post of the barbed-wire fence enclosing the dis cemetery of Mapiripan (Meta, Colombia), a little town set in the Colombian plains on left bank o …"

Colombia’s black-market coltan tied to drug traffickers, paramilitaries

By Ignacio Gómez G.

Illicit mining in hot spot of Colombia’s Amazon tied to paramilitaries, drug traffickers

Excerpts from this story referencing "Colombian police":

"… urrounded by pristine jungle.The work here goes on well out of the view of Colombian police patrols looking for traffickers moving contraband ore containing valuable …"

"… evidence of mining activity, confiscated in a recent raid.Tracing mineralsColombian police are also looking closely at a cache of tungsten ore captured last Septembe …"