LatinNews Daily - 30 January 2015

Development: Colombia’s main political opposition, the right-wing Centro Democrático (CD), will stage a demonstration today (30 January) outside the attorney general’s office in support of the party’s president and last year’s presidential candidate, Óscar Iván Zuluaga, who has been summoned to testify for his alleged role in an illegal spying scandal.

Significance: The CD and its founder, former president and current senator Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010), will lose serious political credibility if it is proven that Zuluaga was aware of the spying on the peace talks between the government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerillas in Cuba carried out by a hacker working for his campaign team last year. This would be beneficial for President Juan Manuel Santos as the CD is the main thorn in his side when it comes to the peace talks.

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