The trial of Colombia's former chief of intelligence Miguel Maza began Monday in the country's highest court. Maza is charged with having played a part in the 1989 assassination of left-wing presidential candidate, Luis Carlos Galan, who was widely expected to have won that year's elections. Maza is accused of taking bribes from drug kingpin Pablo Escobar to reduce Maza's security detail the day he was killed. Escobar is believed to have ordered the assassination. teleSUR
