How Colombia's mass media helped terrorize people into voting for Uribe
by Adriaan Alsema August 17, 2020
Colombia’s mass media played a key role in a 2002 terror campaign that sought to get former President Alvaro Uribe elected and the obstruction of justice to keep him out of prison.
This worked for a while as the media prioritize “the interests of the mafia and the plutocracy” instead of the public, according to the Autonomous University in Cali.
Despite the effort, Uribe is close to joining many of his former allies in prison as the Supreme Court is investigating the alleged fraud and bribery practices of the former Medellin Cartel associate.
Electoral terrorism
Ahead of the elections, Medellin newspaper El Colombiano focused almost exclusively on guerrilla violence.
The earliest evidence Uribe was using mass media for a terror campaign dates back to the 2002 election campaign when media falsely blamed FARC guerrillas for five terrorist attacks in Bogota carried out by the National Army.
A fabricated assassination attempt on Uribe in the northern city of Barranquilla that cost the lives of five civilians one month before the elections was carried out by now-defunct intelligence agency DAS, but was also attributed to the FARC.
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https://colombiareports.com/how-colombias-mass-media-terrorized-people-into-voting-for-mike-pences-hero/
