Bogota, Colombia — Cutting through the shadows of moonlight, three brothers climb out of a truck and trudge slowly, silently toward a dark hill. There, wrapped in a blanket, they find the body of their father.
At the burial shortly afterward, amid tears and embraces, the brothers vow vengeance against the leftist rebels who kidnapped and killed him.
It's a crucial moment in a Colombian paramilitary soap opera that has stirred unprecedented controversy by dramatizing – and some say romanticizing – the career of the Castano brothers, central figures in the creation of the country's murderous far-right militias.
While founded to fight leftist guerrillas, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia evolved into criminal gangs, enriched by drug trafficking, that killed thousands and stole land from tens of thousands more, colluding with scores of prominent politicians.
The soap opera is called "Three Cains," an allusion to the Biblical story of Cain slaying his brother Abel,...
At the burial shortly afterward, amid tears and embraces, the brothers vow vengeance against the leftist rebels who kidnapped and killed him.
It's a crucial moment in a Colombian paramilitary soap opera that has stirred unprecedented controversy by dramatizing – and some say romanticizing – the career of the Castano brothers, central figures in the creation of the country's murderous far-right militias.
While founded to fight leftist guerrillas, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia evolved into criminal gangs, enriched by drug trafficking, that killed thousands and stole land from tens of thousands more, colluding with scores of prominent politicians.
The soap opera is called "Three Cains," an allusion to the Biblical story of Cain slaying his brother Abel,...
- 5/1/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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