Uribe announces new movement to oppose Santos in 2014 elections

Uribe announces new movement to oppose Santos in 2014 elections
FRIDAY, 06 JULY 2012 07:01 ADRIAAN ALSEMA

Colombia's ex-President Alvaro Uribe announced Thursday the creation of a new movement known as the "anti-terrorism front" or "democratic center coalition," aimed at providing a candidate to oppose current President Juan Manuel Santos in the 2014 elections.

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Uribe accused his successor of holding secret negotiations with guerrilla group the FARC and said Santos is responsible for a deterioration of security in Colombia and supporting the "dictatorship" of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Among the hundreds of Uribe loyalists at the event in Bogota's exclusive Nogal club were retired army generals, former ministers Martha Lucia Ramirez, Juan Carlos Holguin, Oscar Ivan Zuluaga and a handful of Uribe-friendly congressmen from the Conservative and U parties.

Accompanied by Londoño and adviser Jose Obdulio Gaviria, the former head of state called on his supporters to "take part in the preparation of the platform, to encourage primary candidates and to support a great candidate" for the 2014 election.

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