Alvaro Uribe's anticlimactic political death

[Judi Lynn]

by Adriaan Alsema August 17, 2020

Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe wasn’t even granted a grandiose exit from politics, the Supreme Court simply left him for dead.

The country’s most important politician and alleged fraudster could have gone out with a bang, being charged with being complicit in massacres, the murder of a human rights defender or even the foundation of a terrorist organization.

But of all the 84 criminal investigations against Uribe, the court placed inmate #1087985 under house arrest on fraud and bribery charges as if the former Medellin Cartel associate and key person of the country’s most bloodthirsty paramilitary group was a petty criminal.

Journalist Vicky Davila of weekly Semana and El Tiempo columnist Maria Isabel Rueda tried to resuscitate the former president on Sunday, announcing that “Uribe talks from his detention for the first time.”

More:
https://colombiareports.com/alvaro-uribes-anticlimactic-political-death/







At least he'll have the U.S. Medal of Freedom to keep him company.

(Can that be used like the "Get Out of Jail Free" card?)

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