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Colombia's chief prosecutor turns Uribe investigation into paramilitary joke
by Adriaan Alsema September 4, 2020
The prosecutor investigating Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe jailed a university rector on bogus charges as part of plot orchestrated by Uribe aides with paramilitary ties.
Prosecutor General Francisco Barbosa, who appointed Gabriel Ramon Jaimes, ignored the prosecutor’s alleged abuse of power to favor criminals, which could make Barbosa look like an utterly corrupt or incompetent tool.
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Colombia Reports could find only one case, which was notable only because Jaimes jailed Magdalena Governor Carlos Caicedo in 2006 in a political persecution conspiracy orchestrated by a jailed former governor and jailed intelligence officials who took part in Uribe’s 2002 presidential campaign were imprisoned for their paramilitary ties.
The prosecutor’s patron is Colombia’s far-right ambassador to the Organization of American States, Alejandro Ordoñez, who is mainly infamous for abusing his power to illegally dismiss opposition Senator Gustavo Petro when the leftist was mayor of Bogota.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/prosecutor-investigating-uribe-took-orders-from-former-presidents-jailed-intelligence-chief/