BOGOTA, Colombia — A judge sentenced two men Tuesday to more than 20 years each in prison for killing leftist political party leader Jaime Pardo Leal, court sources said.
Judge Jairo Torres Romero sentenced William Infante to 25 years and Beyer Yesid Barrera to 24 years for killing Pardo Leal, president of the left-wing Patriotic Union party, in October, 1987.
Infante was jailed for life in the United States last May for drug smuggling and Yesid Barrera is still at large, judicial sources said.
A jury earlier this month found the two guilty of the killing but cleared a suspected leader of the Medellin cartel drug smuggling ring, Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, and three others of involvement in the crime.
