Ha ha ha. He thinks he can cover the Medina problem by claiming he never gave her anything.

[Judi Lynn]

All that proves is that he lied to her! I heard about this last week, in other sources. It's still going today:

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Colombian president said his gov. doesn’t buy consciences

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said on Monday that his government "doesn't buy consciences". Uribe was responding to reporters’ questions about a scandal involving a former Congresswoman Yidis Medina who claims that in return for political favors she voted for a measure in 2004 that enabled the president’s reelection.

Medina turned herself in to law enforcement authorities on Sunday night after Colombia's Supreme Court ordered her arrest. She was being questioned by investigators on Monday.

Uribe reminded reporters on Monday that Medina swore four years ago in a separate investigation that she received no favors in return for her vote.

In an interview broadcast last weekend but recorded nearly four years ago, Yidis Medina says she was promised political favors in return for voting for a bill that allowed Uribe to run for re-election in 2006. Medina described herself as the swing vote on the measure, which passed 18 to 16.

More:
http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=13277&formato=HTML

She freely admitted she didn't "get paid!" I'm not so sure she'd be testifying about this now if she HAD "gotten paid." That's beside the question, however! They promised her rewards for her vote to allow Uribe to stand for re-election. She complied, and voted for this legislation. She sold her vote. They just didn't pay as agreed. She's angry, they'll always be criminals.

Don't forget, as Peace Patriot has pointed out to us, Colombia handled the re-election problem slickly by having Uribe's paramilitary-connected Senate simply VOTE FOR HIS ASS TO RUN AGAIN, whereas Hugo Chavez put it up to the people in a referendum, which the opposition, then, fought like madmen, and the _Bush administration kicked in U.S. taxpayers' dollars to fund more publicity for the opposition's message. Remember, that re-election article was also one of 68 OTHER items, and the opposition further muddied the waters by circulating the twisted rumor that Chavez was going to take away their children! (That was done successfully in Cuba, which panicked the oligarchy dirtballs enough that a lot of the Spanish-descended Cubans put their little sweeties on airplanes to the States in the CIA-originated-and-operated, and Catholic Church-assisted-Pedro Pan child airlift! That's how we have zombies like Senator Mel Martinez, a Pedro Pan baby screwing around in our government now.)

They flooded the public sector with disinformation, until they had very little idea what the #### was being voted on, so any real thought of another term for the President truly was lost in the noise. I personally hope he runs it through again in a streamlined version of the recall, and that they choose only the most needed reforms to do at one time.

That's a damned sight better than BRIBING a Senate dominated by death-squad patrons, like the bastards who have used their services and have had opposition slaughtered, or have used their services to acquire PROPERTY THE DEATH SQUADS HAVE AFTER KILLING OR DRIVING OFF THE OWNERS at a rock-bottom price, like ex-Senator, Presidential cousin and cohort, Mario Uribe Escobar.

(Maybe the Latin America forum can get an intermediary who can go to Colombia and arrange to take ownership of a beach front villa from the narcotrafficker/death squads/paramilitaries the Latin America forum can use for vacations, for NADA! Wouldn't that be cool? Free property! Wooohoooooo! Just like a Colombian poltician. Wowie! :woohoo: )