Uribe needs a miracle to stay out of prison

[Judi Lynn]

by Adriaan Alsema August 17, 2019

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 failed.

Everything has been done to avoid the controversial politician be called to trial; at least one witness has been assassinated, evidence has been manipulated and Uribe even revived his proposal to abolish the very rule of law, all to no avail.

President Ivan Duque‘s political patron faces a reckoning and he knows it. This time, no political opponent of the controversial former president accused him of any crime, the Supreme Court did claiming it has evidence of one.

Uribe will already go into Colombia’s history as the first ever president to be tried by the Supreme Court on criminal charges. There’s no hashtag or referendum that can change that.

The witness tampering case is just one of at least two dozen criminal cases lying before the Supreme Court. These charges include his alleged involvement in two massacres, the assassinations of three human rights defenders and his role in the formation of a terrorist organization.

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