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 "Leonardo Iván Cortés-Novoa":

"… men marched into the town of Mapiripan. The town's penal municipal judge, Leonardo Iván Cortés-Novoa, called the Army battalion commander in charge of the area eight (8) times …"

"… part men who spoke in the Coastal dialect and who were armed to the teeth. Leonardo Iván Cortés-Novoa, who was then the municipal judge-of Mapiripan, says-that-since he lived o …"