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Colombia police begins counteroffensive against lying election candidates
by Adriaan Alsema February 12, 2018
Colombia’s National Police has actively begun countering false claims made by candidates and other political actors ahead of elections in the South American country.
The first politician to be reprimanded was Senate candidate Claudia Bustamante of the hard-right Democratic Center party of former President Alvaro Uribe.
The Medellin businesswoman on Friday published photos of a 2016 farmers’ strike on Twitter, falsely claiming that ELN guerrillas were burning trucks as part of an ongoing shutdown.
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Uribe’s party admitted to using disinformation in the campaign leading up to a 2016 referendum on a peace agreement with Marxist FARC guerrillas.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-police-counteroffensive-lying-election-candidates/