Plan Colombia and Child Raping U.S. Soldiers
9:14 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia| Controversia| Latin America
10 Oct 2007
Plan Colombia and the intervention of the U.S. military in that South American nation brings more than just the expected violence between rival paramilitary and leftist groups. It brings the rape of local children. According to a Colombian newspaper report two members of the US military in Colombia, Michael J. Cohen and Cesar Ruiz, assigned under Plan Colombia to the military base of Tolemaida, are reported to have enticed a 12 year-old Colombian girl to go with them on August 25, 2007, and brought her into the base, where they fondled and raped her for four hours.
Reports indicate that Michael Cohen has been taken out of Colombia by the US government, meaning he will not have to answer to the rape charges.
The scary thing is that using Colombian children as the sexual playthings of U.S. soldiers isn’t something new. Three years ago soldiers and technicians from the US produced pornographic videos of Colombian youth and sold them for $10,000 pesos (About $5 US dollars) apiece.
Via / El Tiempo and Narcosphere
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5 Responses to Plan Colombia and Child Raping U.S. Soldiers
M
October 10th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Mala, do you have a link, or a source, for the article that described the “US soldier produced colombian child porn” act? Fuck…
Maegan la Mala Ortiz
October 11th, 2007 at 7:49 am
Yup.
M
October 11th, 2007 at 11:33 am
are you fucking kidding me? i can be held indefinitely in prison for “terrorist-like comments” and these fuckers can’t be imprisoned for promising visas?
i love how this is only in spanish. figures…
Jennifer Woodard Maderazo
October 11th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
This highlights the need for translation of news from Latin America into English…half of what is well-known there is unknown to us here.
Julia
October 11th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
The link’s not working on my computer…..