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Jailed paramilitary tries music career

by Hannah Aronowitz January 14, 2011
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Oliverio Isaza, alias “Terror,” incarcerated for his actions as a Colombian paramilitary, has recorded14 songs from jail, reported newspaper El Tiempo Friday.

The son of paramilitary leader Magdalena Medio Ramon Isaza is held responsible for hundreds of deaths, disappearances, and forced displacements in the Colombian depapartments of Caldas, Antioquia, Tolima and Cundinamarca.

Instead of offering financial compensation to his victims, Isaza has spent over $4,000 to record four controversial music videos.

“They call me Terror, it’s how they distinguish me, but I am humble and very sentimental,” he croons in the song “Friends of my friends.”

In “I was born again” Isaza asked forgiveness “from his friends and society.” However, in other songs, the man who confessed to 268 crimes says that he is a “humanitarian man,” and that “those who criticize are jealous.”

After receiving the OK from the Prosecutor General’s Justice and Peace Office, the criminal recorded 14 songs in September and shot four music videos from jail, in which Isaza sports a mullet, a slightly unbuttoned collared shirt, a large cross around his neck ,and a gaudy gold ring. The videos are set to backgrounds shot previously in Antioquia and Las Mercedes, where Isaza and his father had their paramilitary camp for years.

Isaza was also featured in his own calendar in which he offers personal messages for 2011 and published the images on his Facebook page.

His videos can be viewed on YouTube, where a dismayed public has responded by criticizing him for focusing on his music career instead of offering retribution for his past actions.

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