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The former governor of the northern Colombian Sucre department Friday was sentenced to seven and a half years imprisinment for his ties to paramilitary death squads.
The country’s Supreme Court considered it proven that Jorge Anaya had made a pact with now demobilized paramilitary warlord Rodrigo Mercado Pelufo, alias Rodrigo Cadena’, to support the politician’s cancidady for governor.
More than a hundred Colombian politicians, from local to national level, are being investigated for using paramilitary influence for political gain.
