Uribe ceases teaching post in France after criticism

Uribe ceases teaching post in France after criticism
Wednesday, 15 June 2011 08:04
Tom Heyden

Former President Alvaro Uribe has terminated his teaching post at an eastern French university after criticism of his tenure as president within the European Parliament, AFP reported Wednesday.

Uribe had only begun teaching as a visiting professor in March, teaching a class on economic development in Latin America in the engineering univsersity Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Metz (ENIM), in eastern France.

His appointment was met with protest and criticism from some quarters, particularly from left-wing politicians in the European Parliament.

Although his contract ended in April, he was expected to carry on teaching, until the university's management announced that "the ex president of the Colombian Republic does not wish to continue to intervene in a context manipulated by a faction of the extreme left that, without evidence, discreditied his mandate."

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Alvaro Uribe.