Colombia’s Supreme Court will begin hearing witnesses in a criminal case against former President Alvaro Uribe on September 3. Among the 48 witnesses are 17 former members of paramilitary group AUC, some of whom have changed their testimony in the time the court was investigating witness tampering. The court also requested all registered phone calls […]
Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe has been very successful in politics, but has had the worst luck in court. This is because politics is a matter of opinion, but justice is not; it follows the rule of law. While Uribe has been extremely successful in manipulating public opinion, all his attempts to manipulate justice have […]
Colombia’s Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a witness tampering case against former president Alvaro Uribe will proceed, rejecting an appeal for annulment by his defense. Uribe, who is accused of attempting to influence witnesses who have testified that he formed a paramilitary death squad when he was governor of the Antioquia province will now […]
Colombia’s prosecution is investigating the role of its former Technical Investigations Unit director (CTI) over the manipulation of evidence of alleged witness tampering by former President Alvaro Uribe, according to weekly Semana. The weekly reported on Sunday that the former director of the CTI, Danny Julian Quintana, will have to explain to investigators on Friday […]
Colombia’s Supreme Court said Monday it has removed a magistrate from the witness tampering case against former President Alvaro Uribe for omitting to report she used to work for his lawyer. Senator Ivan Cepeda requested the removal of magistrate Cristina Lombana after she was forced to admit to journalist Daniel Coronell that she worked with […]
Senator Ivan Cepeda said Tuesday that he will ask the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) to oversee a pending witness-tampering trial against Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe. During an interview with Radio Caracol, Cepeda said he would request oversight due to an increase in death threats directed at himself and his family in the […]
The president of Colombia’s war crimes tribunal asked controversial former president Alvaro Uribe to end his campaign of “insults, disinformation and distortion” against the Special Peace Juristiction (JEP). Uribe, whose administration has been convicted for multiple war crimes, has wielded his substantial political power to attack the JEP, repeatedly calling for it to be dismantled. […]
A magistrate investigating Senator Alvaro Uribe never told the Supreme Court she used to work for the controversial former president’s attorney, according to weekly Semana. Magistrate Cristina Eugenia Lombano never included her work experience with Uribe’s defense attorney, Jaime Granados, on the curriculum vitae given to the court before her election in August 2018. Lombano […]
A second former member of the paramilitary death squad allegedly founded by former President Alvaro Uribe and his brother asked to be allowed to testify before the country’s war crimes tribunal. Uribe has been accused for founding the Bloque Metro by multiple members, but was never investigated despite court orders to investigate the former Medellin […]
Ranchers in the northern Colombia will “arm themselves illegally” if the government does not lift the restriction on them carrying weapons, former President Alvaro Uribe said Wednesday The demands of the ranchers in Cesar, which was a hotspot of paramilitary activity in the 1990’s comes in the aftermath of the discovery of the body of […]