Senator-elect recants statements linking union leaders to FARC

Senator-elect recants statements linking union leaders to FARC
Apr 10, 2014 posted by Connor Paige

A cousin of the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar, and Colombia Senator-elect on Thursday publicly retracted statements where he alleged links between several union groups and the FARC, Colombia’s largest armed rebel group.

Senator-elect Jose Obdulio Gaviria publicly recanted statements he wrote in an opinion column in 2007 which alleged that three union groups from the southwestern city of Cali had links to the FARC – Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – the oldest rebel group in Colombia.

Obdulio, a member of former-President Alvaro Uribe’s Democratic Center party also publicly asked forgiveness from the unions Sintraemcali, Sintratelefonos and Sintraunicol for his 2007 false accusations, offering his “sincerest apologies” and begging a “humble pardon.”

Obdulio is currently under investigation for the defamation of the three trade unions, reported El Espectador. His legal team has argued that his apologies merit a dropping of charges against him.

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