President Santos accuses Alvaro Uribe of spreading lies .
President Santos accuses Alvaro Uribe of spreading lies .
Friday, 05 April 2013 17:00 Hanna Mead / Jim Glade
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos on Friday directly accused ex-President Alvaro Uribe of spreading false information in an attempt to affect politics.
Santos condemned Uribe by name for fabricating a story about an alleged attack on the governor of the northern La Guajira department.
"Uribe said on the radio that yes, there was an attack against the governor of La Guajira [...] it is incredible that they continue to insist on these kinds of manipulations of information to cause political effects," the President claimed.
Governor Juan Francisco Gomez's press secretary, Katrin Bolaño, told Colombia Reports that there was no attempt on the life of the governor. "Security Forces found two cylinder bombs abandoned in the street," said the secretary. "The bombs were more than eighty meters [262 ft.] from the house of the governor ... There is one police station and two schools closer to where the bombs were found."
"The governor thinks this is an irresponsible act on behalf of the ex-president and it's an attack on the institutional credibility of the army and the police," said Bolaño.
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