Colombia’s ex-spy chief on trial for 1989 killing of election candidate

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The former director of Colombia’s intelligence service returned to court this week to face charges of complicity in the assassination of a leading presidential hopeful, who was gunned down in 1989 by a powerful drug cartel.

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