How Santos betrayed Uribe

How Santos betrayed Uribe
Posted by Adriaan Alsema on Mar 9, 2016

Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe claims that his successor, Juan Manuel Santos, is politically persecuting him. Here is why he keeps saying that.

When Uribe was still president, a number of judicial scandals emerged. This included the 2004 bribery of Congressmen to secure Uribe’s election, ties between paramilitary group AUC and the Uribe-dominated Congress, and — most importantly — the illegal spying carried out by intelligence agency DAS on the Supreme Court.

The latter caused major tensions between the judicial branch and the executive in 2009, a year before Uribe left office. In that same year, Uribe was supposed to hand in a shortlist of who would become Prosecutor General of Colombia. From this shortlist, the court is supposed to pick the new prosecutor general, the person ultimately in charge of the investigations of the aforementioned scandals.

Uribe handed in the shortlist as usual, keen to have a loyalist in place that could have influence over the pending criminal investigations against himself, his family and his political allies.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/santos-betrayed-uribe/

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