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Andean Group - May 2024
The case against Uribe
More than six years after he became the subject of a criminal investigation, Colombia’s former president Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010) was called to trial on 9 April to face charges of witness tampering. The case will inflame Colombia’s deeply polarised political debate; Uribe is the arch-rival of President Gustavo Petro and claims to be the victim of political persecution. The attorney general’s office – headed since March by Petro nominee Luz Adriana Camargo – can expect to be accused of acting in Petro’s interests. The government’s supporters would argue in response that the previously glacial progress of the Uribe investigation owed to obstruction by Camargo’s predecessor, Francisco Barbosa (2020-2024), who was nominated by Uribe’s protégé, former president Iván Duque (2018-2022).
