Hearing to focus on alleged ties of U.S. firm to militias - Congress will hear testimony today about alleged links between U.S. companies and right-wing death squads in Colombia.

“Edwin Guzmán, a plump, one-time Colombian army sergeant turned paramilitary foot soldier, said he is ready to testify at a congressional hearing in Washington today that his military units worked in tandem with illegal militia groups to fight guerrilla forces and that a U.S. company aided the militias.

The former sergeants testimony is part of a widening probe of U.S. companies alleged ties to right-wing militias in Colombia that could affect U.S. aid to this war-torn nation.”

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