Underreported: U.S. Extradites Colombian Paramilitaries and Seals their Case Records

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 29, 2010

Since 2006, the United States has extradited more than a dozen Colombian paramilitaries, only to seal the records of their court cases. On this week’s Underreported, Jennifer Janisch and Oriana Zill de Granados of PBS’s Wide Angle series, explain how they discovered that the cases, and what the use of judicial secrecy here in the U.S. means for their Colombian victims seeking justice.

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