Hot in Colombia: trolling Uribe rallies
by Adriaan Alsema September 25, 2019
Former President Alvaro Uribe (Image: Democratic Center)
Colombias latest fashion appears to be trolling campaign rallies of former President Alvaro Uribe.
The far-right politician is campaigning with local and regional candidates of his Democratic Center party while his lawyers try to keep him out of prison.
This doesnt seem to be working out very well.
Even in his home province Antioquia, the stomping ground of Uribismo, the former president is confronted with young people shouting assassin and paraco at him.
Tell me something new
As his fraud and bribery trial progresses, the protests are becoming so regular that they are increasingly agitating the once revered Uribe.
Tell me something new and imaginative! Uribe shouted back at protesters in Marinilla, a town 10 kilometers from his estate in Rionegro on Sunday.
Uribes trial is increasing suspicions that the Uribe family founded the Bloque Metro, the paramilitary group that committed a massacre in Marinilla in 2001 and left 4,000 victims in Antioquia.
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