The report offers a chronology of events leading to the extradition. Here's a translated excerpt:

January 2004: In Ecuador, Juvenal Ovidio Palmera, known as "Simon Trinidad" is taken prisoner.

December of 2004: The (Colombian) Supreme Court simultaneously authorizes the extradition of paramilitary boss Salvatore Mancuso and the FARC leader "Simon Trinidad."

December 2004: The government conditions the non-extradition of Mancuso on his strict compliance with peace agreements. In the same manner, it says that it will not procede against "Trinidad" if the guerrilla liberates 63 prisoners.

This is not justice. It is a circus show.

The paramilitary leader Mancuso, his organization responsible for the majority of massacres and assassinations in Colombia, is offered a vague "condition" of personally complying with peace agreements. Of course, he is in custody, so he can't violate them anyway. And so Colombia disregards the extradition "request" by Washington.

The guerrilla leader Trinidad - a former banker and university dean who came from the oligarchy of his country (and calls his membership in it his "only blemish") is offered no such deal that he personally can comply with: the deal, instead, is offered to the insurgent leaders of his rebel army: release 63 prisoners or Trinidad goes to "gringo justice."

So goes the double standard of a discourse that has long equated the paramilitary death squads and the rebel guerrillas as the same, but has, every chance, let the paramilitaries escape justice while engaging in an expensive dirty war against the insurgents.

Mancuso, the paramilitary, was offered a "deal" that was easy for him to comply with.

Trinidad, the guerrilla, was offered no deal at all - instead, others were offered a deal for him that the authorities knew could not be accepted: 63 prisoners in exchange for one.

And this dance was used as the pretext to save Mancuso's ass while sending Trinidad to a show trial in the U.S.

The "human rights bureaucrats" who have long straddled the fence with dishonest posturing that claimed revolutionary violence in defense of the poor and paramilitary violence in defense of wealth are moral equivalents are participants in this double standard.

In any case, Trinidad is now somewhere near Washington DC, in a secret location, guarded by U.S. authorities. His trial - if the independent press is allowed to cover it (still an open question) - will be waged for the Commercial Media as an act of propaganda. Still, it will be interesting, and Narco News will be beating down the doors of the courthouse to get inside and report the true facts.