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Weekly Report - 15 October 2015 (WR-15-41)
COLOMBIA: Uribe faces accusations on eve of elections
Colombia’s attorney general’s office has appealed to the supreme court to determine if there is sufficient evidence to open an investigation into former president Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010) for alleged links to paramilitaries. The timing of the move has incensed Uribe’s right-wing Centro Democrático (CD). Regional and local elections take place on 25 October and the CD claims that it is the victim of overt political persecution. The prosecutor general, Alejandro Ordóñez, an Uribe ally, even alleged that the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) had made Uribe’s prosecution a precondition for peace.
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