Paramilitaries of the Metro Block in their encampment after the group’s expulsion from the AUC (United Self-defences of Colombia). Within weeks the group would be broken and scattered by the Colombian military and other paramilitary groups and its leader Carlos Mauricio García Fernández (pictured here), alias “Rodrigo Franco” and also “Doble Cero,” was killed by paramilitaries months later in Santa Marta on the Caribbean Coast on the 28th of May 2004.
Paramilitaries of the Metro Block in their encampment after the group’s expulsion from the AUC (United Self-defences of Colombia) and weeks before it was forcibly disbanded. Their commander Carlos Mauricio García Fernández, alias “Rodrigo Franco” and also “Doble Cero,” accused the AUC of allying with drugs traffickers, giving them franchises with which they could tag onto negotiations with the government and enjoy the benefits of the AUC’s imminent demobilisation and legal benefits granted under the “Justice and Peace” law. Some six weeks after military actions by the Colombian Army and AUC paramilitaries were launched against the Metro Block it ceased to exist.
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