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Colombia's 2018 election fraud: investigations against Uribe and Duque piling up
by Adriaan Alsema March 5, 2020
Piling evidence Colombia’s President Ivan Duque won the 2018 election through fraud triggered new criminal charges against his political patron, former President Alvaro Uribe.
Senior journalist Gonzalo Guillen filed election fraud charges against Uribe on Wednesday after publishing 2018 wiretap transcripts in which one of Uribe’s late mafia friends, Jose Guillermo Hernandez, said he was buying votes for Duque.
Hernandez, an associate of notorious crime lord Marquitos Figueroa, was murdered in what was called a botched robbery in Brazil in May last year.
Despite the evidence that got him in legal trouble again, Uribe dismissed Guillen’s revelations as a “fairy tale” and said Duque’s 2018 campaign was handled “rigorously” by campaign manager Luigi Echeverri.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/investigations-against-uribe-and-duque-pile-up-over-colombias-2018-election-fraud/