Colombia state council orders reinstatement of prominent leftist politician
Source: Colombia Reports
Colombia state council orders reinstatement of prominent leftist politician
written by Thomas Smiley August 10, 2016
Colombia’s State Council ordered to revoke an 18-year political ban of prominent leftist politician Piedad Cordoba and financially compensate the politician for banning her under false pretexts.
Former Senator Piedad Cordoba was barred from holding office by Inspector General Alejandro Ordoñez in 2008 on claims she had ties to leftist guerrilla group FARC.
Ordoñez, who has tried to remove numerous leftist politicians from office, removed Cordoba from the Senate and barred her from holding public office for 18 years using evidence from a computer belonging to a slain FARC commander.
However, the Supreme Court had already dismissed this evidence as it had possibly been tampered.
Read more: http://colombiareports.com/piedad-cordoba-compensated-state-council-rules-favour/
Colombia has had a long history of simply murdering leftist politicians altogether, numbering in the thousands.
