How Uribe trial puts Colombia's government in crisis even before taking office

[Judi Lynn]

by Adriaan Alsema July 25, 2018

Ivan Duque has not even taken office and his government is already in crisis after the president-elect’s political patron, former President Alvaro Uribe, resigned from Congress.

Uribe resigned from the Senate on Tuesday in an apparent panic reaction to an impending interrogation by the Supreme Court over the intimidation of witnesses who testified against the former head of state.

For years, Uribe has been accused of forming a death squad. Multiple witnesses who have testified against him were either murdered or survived assassination attempts.

The former president’s move leaves Duque — who is only 41 and has no relevant executive experience — without political mentor. The president’s party is left without leader just days after Congress was sworn in.

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