Reply #3: Funny that you've posted entire articles which argued he was protected from extradition... [View All]

...and now it's all the other way around, almost completely.

Extradition was incredibly good and just punishment, when it looked like they wouldn't be facing it, but now it's the most horrible and unfair thing that should never have happened. You lose no matter what you do.

At the very least, that shows those earlier articles were painfully simplistic.

Me? I think it's bad if it isn't used as an opportunity by the victims and others, instead of merely complaining about it.

And in fact they might be able to get more, in terms of reparations and punishment if not necessarily truth, out of him outside of Colombia rather than inside, where he was routinely violating the law even during the justice and peace process and was only revealing information at a snail's pace according to his own convenience and without being judicially confirmed. Which would take even more time.

So slow that it would take 35 years for the paramilitaries to finish going through the entire process, even if by some miracle Mancuso's picked up speed in the meanwhile, the picture was bleak.

http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/colombia/doc/impunidad1.html

Now he may even think he's got nothing to lose by speaking if interrogated about crimes, since the threat of extradition became a reality. There is nothing preventing the victims and their allies in the U.S. from raising new cases and forcing new charges against him and others, including U.S. companies, in the U.S. In fact, there's the Alien Tort Act, for example, and it could cover non-drug offense.

But I am a horrible person for pointing this out and not just nodding or expressing moral outrage, so none of this matters.