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Paramilitary Group

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Giving "The Devil" His Due

Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, the founder of a barbaric Haitian paramilitary group, vanished from Port-au-Prince and resurfaced as a real estate agent in Queens.

David Grann The Atlantic Jun 2001 1h Permalink

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Death and Drugs in Colombia

On Colombia’s “macabre alliance”:

In February 2003, the mayor of a small town on Colombia’s Caribbean coast stood up at a nationally televised meeting with then President Álvaro Uribe and announced his own murder.

Daniel Wilkinson New York Review of Books Jun 2011 15min Permalink