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Weekly Report - 3 February 2011 (WR-11-05)

COLOMBIA: Media savvy Santos tours Europe

“So far, so good". That was the answer the BBC's Stephen Sackur got from President Juan Manuel Santos during his interview for the political show Hardtalk when he asked if Santos trusted the promises made to him by Venezuela's Hugo Chávez . And that was not the only honest, and possibly uncomfortable, answer Santos gave: when asked how he would react if the Colombian judiciary decided to investigate former President Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010) for his alleged involvement in the illegal intelligence gathering scandal known as the 'chuzadas', Santos said “I will not be happy, but I'll accept it...I have supported each one of the investigations [led by the supreme court and the attorney general], no matter who they touch."

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