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#Colombia: The long lawfare shadow of M-19. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ

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🗓️ 12 May 2023

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#Colombia: The long lawfare shadow of M-19. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/colombia-gustavo-petro-m19-terrorism-dragged-into-u-s-court-f36dc1b5



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0:10.8

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0:27.2

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0:30.0

This is CBS I Am The World.

0:37.4

I'm John Batcher, 6 November 1985, approximately 1135 in the morning, Bogota, Columbia.

0:43.8

An assault begins launched by gangsters against the Supreme Court, the Palace of Justice

0:49.7

of Columbia, leading to bloody-minded massacre.

0:54.5

That story is today relevant because one of the gangsters participating in the planning

1:02.6

or building of the organization that assaulted the Palace of Justice is now the president

1:07.6

of Columbia's, name is Gustavo Petro.

1:09.9

You've heard me talk of him as a former member of the M19.

1:14.0

Well, it was M19 and other aspects of the gangsters of those days that assaulted the Palace

1:19.6

of Justice.

1:21.1

This informs the background of a new column for Marianne Estegio Grady of the Wall Street

1:26.2

Journal editorial page, the columnist and the America's editor of a man named Plasas,

1:32.0

Alfonso Plasas Vega, who now abides in Florida.

1:36.3

Maria, very good evening to you.

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