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Colombia's ruling party joins hate campaign against Uribe victim and critics
by Adriaan Alsema
September 7, 2020
Colombia’s ruling party has joined a campaign to intimidate the victim of former President Alvaro Uribe‘s alleged fraud and bribery practices, opposition Senator Ivan Cepeda.
The lawmaker showed news program Noticias Uno evidence that 16 lawmakers of the far-right Democratic Center party of Uribe and President Ivan Duque have been bombarding him with requests for information, including private information he under no circumstance is obliged to disclose.
Duque’s far-right buddy weighs in
The same news program showed a letter by one of President Ivan Duque’s best friends, Luis Guillermo Echeverri, in which the far-right ideologue asked Spanish newspaper El Pais not to interview Uribe’s victims.
The offensive of Uribe’s far-right supporters followed death threats against Cepeda, his family and his defense attorney and an ongoing disinformation campaign by Colombia’s leading weekly, Semana.
Cepeda became the victim of Uribe’s alleged criminal practices that cost the former president his political career in 2014 when the far-right politician failed false charges against the lawmaker.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-ruling-party-joins-hate-campaign-against-uribe-victim-and-critics/
If Senator Ivan Cepeda were one to scare easily, it would have happened when the same people assassinated his own father, also Senator Cepeda, whom they also hated.