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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 07 April 2017
COLOMBIA: Mocoa mudslide eclipses anti-corruption march
Senator Alvaro Uribe (former president 2002-2010) orchestrated an anti-corruption march on 1 April against the government led by President Juan Manuel Santos after revelations surfaced that the disgraced Brazilian construction and engineering firm Odebrecht provided finance for his 2014 re-election campaign. The march, which took place in 25 towns and cities across Colombia, was reasonably well-attended but it did not get the media coverage Uribe sought as it was overshadowed by a fatal natural disaster earlier in the day: a massive mudslide in Mocoa, the capital of the southern department of Putumayo, claimed the lives of at least 263 people.
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