Petro vows to defend Uribe from extradition

by Adriaan Alsema June 14, 2018

Sooner or later, an international court will request the extradition of Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe, according to leftist presidential candidate Gustavo Petro.

Uribe has come under increased legal pressure over his ties to the Medellin Cartel in the 1980s and alleged tied to paramilitary groups in the 1990s.

Uribe’s cartel years
According to Petro, who was meeting with business leaders and unionists in Medellin on Wednesday, predicted that it will be his current allies “who will betray him and surrender him — just like they did with former President [Ricardo] Martinelli of Panama — to international courts.

The leftist candidate, who has been a critic of extraditing alleged criminals said that that he, “Petro, will be the one who will end up defending him” according to weekly Semana.

Martinelli, a personal friend of Uribe, was arrested in Miami earlier this week on charges he had spied on political opponents and had embezzled millions of dollars from the Panamanian treasury.

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Uribe, left, Martinelli, right

(Both hard right.)