To his critics, this sounds as though Mr Uribe will give a dangerous official licence to paramilitarism.

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"Those within loyalist paramilitarism that I have been speaking to realise that ultimately we are going to ghettoize these areas unless we begin to clean these areas up, " he said.

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Uribe: Colombia has overcome paramilitarism.

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