#COLOMBIA:Lawfare and M-19. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ
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#COLOMBIA:Lawfare and M-19. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/foreign-lawfare-comes-to-u-s-courts-legal-courts-politics-latin-america-colombia-cc034b83?st=52c85gk1lsps7gy&reflink=article_gmail_share
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| 0:35.0 | 1985, a massacre in Bogota, |
| 0:40.0 | a massacre in Bogota, Colombia, a massacre driven by a guerrilla organization known as |
| 0:46.6 | M19, the execution of 11 jurists, the death of some nearly 50 to 60 people overall, and the rescue of 260 plus people |
| 0:59.7 | by a man at that time known as Colonel Plazis, many decades later, nearly 40 |
| 1:06.2 | decades later, four decades later, the daughters of one of the men who died in |
| 1:12.1 | the gunplay. In Florida are bringing a civil case |
| 1:16.0 | against the man who commanded the rescue, Colonel Plazas, who now lives in Florida. |
| 1:21.0 | He's 80 years old. This is the predicate to understand the story that |
| 1:25.9 | Marianne Stéjo Grady is continuing to publish in her column for the Wall Street Journal editorial page. |
| 1:34.7 | Mary, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:36.2 | Colonel Plazas is in Florida. |
| 1:38.5 | He is being in civil court sued by the daughters of a man who died in the gun play of 1985. |
| 1:45.0 | It is important to establish that one of those daughters |
| 1:50.0 | has some relation to the president of Columbia, Gustavo Petro, who was in |
| 1:57.6 | 1985 a member of the M19 guerrilla movement responsible for the massacre. |
| 2:03.3 | Is that relevant to the story that we're telling? |
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