Colombia emerald czar linked to AUC massacre: Declassified US cables
US NATIONAL ARCHIVES- Lifting the Veil on Colombia's "Emerald Czar" U.S. Embassy cable from 1991 characterizes Carranza as a "big-time narco"
A notorious Colombian emerald dealer is accused of perpetrating a massacre of 12 people in southern Colombia in 1997, local media reported on Thursday.According to a declassified United States government report, Victor Carranza, also known as "The Emerald Czar" because of his control over emerald exploitation in Colombia, was accused of facilitating a massacre in Miraflores with the help of the right-wing paramilitary group AUC. The accusations in the report were backed up by a former AUC member, Fredy Rendon Herrera, alias "El Aleman," Caracol Radio reported. The U.S. report stated that a former paramilitary leader, going under the alias "Clodomiro Agami", suspiciously similar to "Clodomiro Agamez", the alias used by Carranza, "freely admitted that he and men under his command were responsible for the October, 1997 killings in Miraflores." However, the report does not explicitly state that Carranza nor Clodomiro Agamez was the mastermind.The report gets even murkier when it notes that the Colombian army, which was rife with corruption and AUC supporters at the time, allowed paramilitaries to travel to a remote airport with the intention of carrying out the killings. [ed notes;us military advisers were training colombia military under plan integrated action in meta region,with auc paramilitary members present,scene of false positive mass graves,it would be later discovered!that wa sjust in one of last theaters of us operations of course! ] The report states that "elements of the Colombian army had been fully aware in advance [of the] plans and activities in Miraflores."The massacre ended in the death of 12 people with hundreds more being displaced. The report indicated that it was an AUC-led three-day operation, with possible help from the army, to gain control of the area, generally inhabited by left-wing guerrilla supporters.This is not the first time Carranza has been accused of having ties with the AUC. According to local media, the Emerald Czar escapes conviction every time he is brought to court because witnesses get killed or threatened.

[ed notes:carranza helped finance the israhelli mercenary yair kleins training of deathsquads in Colombia,under a secret c.i.a. operation according to sentenced paramilitary leader involved in the scheme... carranza,farouk,yair kleins financiers Colombi... - THENAKEDFACTS  this is why us refuses to even ask for his arrest and extradition today![[[(why doesnt us govt prohibit his businesses from operating on global markets?where is the zionist us treasury blacklist of carranza?)]]]...anyone who pays close attention to us colombia relations,knows that us requests extraditions of major colombian paramilitaries tied to rightwing politcians in colombia who are guilty of major crimes,this of course is to hamper national proceeding wich reveal the relationship between washingtons backed elite politicians in colombia and those extradited(the extradition offers EVEN BIGGER reduced sentences,then colombias justice for peace laws and hampers deeper revelations of these connections,wich would embarass/expose and pose a risk to continual genocidal/colonial us policies in Colombia..The fact carranaza financed an israhelli mercenary is another reason why us wont dare press the issue,because yair klein had contacts and was aided thru us funded DAS agency!anyway,to sum it up.. A document from the U.S. DEA indicates that the Colombian police(under us funding and training) wanted the "emerald czar" hunting work with Pablo Escobar, the Medellin cartel leader who had escaped from prison in 1992 and walked fugitive. The cable, discovered by journalist Mark Bowden in his book Killing Pablo, said the National Police of Colombia was "trying to contact Victor Carranza emerald dealer in hopes of collecting information about the location of Escobar."(the hunt for pablo was a ''CIA OP''(pablos crimes were exposing and embarassing washington,who channeled major funds under guise of combatting drug trade there)...to prove that,,is fact that after pablo was killed ,us intelligence files on one of medellin cartels rising top narco traffickers, ex president(at time a local politician, senator)alvaro uribe,who later would come to power,and get full backing and support by washington!!!see.. 

U.S. INTELLIGENCE LISTED COLOMBIAN (EX-)PRESIDENT URIBE AMONG"IMPORTANT COLOMBIAN NARCO-TRAFFICKERS" IN 1991 Then-Senator "Dedicated to Collaboration with the Medellín Cartel at High Government Levels"NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB131/index.htm
[ed note;i hate  articles,wich fail to mention the most pertinant and relevant facts,wich are ...the us govt is cumplicit in crimes committed by these groups,and war criminals it 
protects...heres a question..since us had these files on carranza,and his crimes ,what benefits did carranza receive under us colombia free trade agreements>?surely as one of worlds top emerald czars,im sure he benefitted greatly from shipping them to us markets!!!the fact there is no virtually no info on the emerald king and us trade and chamber of commerce dept in colombia tells me washington,was very well connected with business as usual policy,in fact why didnt us prohibit him from doing business with us markets?(wich seems to not even be reported anywhere!)