Murderer of 2 Colombian students gets 49 years

A member of the Colombian neo-paramilitary organization, “Los Urabeños,” on Thursday was sentenced to 49 years in prison for murdering two university students near a beach on Colombia’s Caribbean coast in 2011.

BACKGROUND: Gangs suspected in Cordoba students’ deaths

Blanquito became the second person convicted after a judge sentenced the taxi driver who transported the gunmen to the crime scene to 37 years in prison.

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