Colombia congress bans Uribe’s US trip to seek opposition support in Washington
Source: Colombia Reports
Colombia congress bans Uribe’s US trip to seek opposition support in Washington
Feb 7, 2015 posted by Adriaan Alsema
Colombia’s Congress has disallowed former President Alvaro Uribe to travel to the United States where he hopes to garner political support for his opposition to ongoing peace talks with leftist rebels.
Congress will return from winter recess on Monday to debate the government plans for the coming four years.
But Uribe and four of his fellow Democratic Center lawmakers had requested permission to skip one of the most important debates of the congressional term for more urgent matters for the opposition party.
According to Uribe and his allies, they have become the target of a political persecution over their political opposition to ongoing peace talks with rebel group FARC that is impeding them from freely carrying out their opposition.
Read more: http://colombiareports.co/colombia-congress-bans-uribes-us-trip-seek-opposition-support-washington/
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