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House Arrest

Friday, August 03, 2012



Bogota, Colombia — Jorge Luis Alfonso Lopez (center) is escorted by police on a airport tarmac after arriving in Bogota, yesterday. Alfonso Lopez is a former mayor of Magangue and the son of a controversial businesswoman known as "La Gata', now under house arrest for her ties to paramilitary groups. Alfonso Lopez, who is facing murder charges for two men; one a journalist, the other a student, was captured on a farm near Colombia's Caribbean coast, yesterday morning. (Photo:AP)



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