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Sunday, July 24, 2011

General Montoya, back in Colombia

This August 23, General Mario Montoya, former commander of the Army, will be Colombia's ambassador to the Dominican Republic, a position he left it the previous government.

It is not clear what has motivated his departure or whether he resigned or requested it. 

His public life was never far from controversy.

When he was commander of the Fourth Brigade in Antioquia, between 2001 and 2003, there were rumors have made ​​alliances with paramilitaries to take the guerrillas in the area.

As commander of the Army, the scandal of false positives in the hands blew up in October 2008 when it was discovered that 11 young men were killed by Soacha Army Ocaña, who posed as guerrillas killed in combat.

And his name appeared on WikiLeaks cables, where the U.S. Embassy expressed its distrust for alleged human rights violations.

The general has no criminal or disciplinary investigation against him, but why take it out of his comfortable retirement suddenly diplomatic and return to Colombia does not cease to be all a question ...

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