Yet another former Uribe official charged over ‘Colombia’s Watergate’
Yet another former Uribe official charged over ‘Colombia’s Watergate’
Posted by Adriaan Alsema on Aug 3, 2015
The former Press Secretary of the past Alvaro Uribe administrations has been charged with conspiracy over his alleged role in the spying on Colombia’s Supreme Court.
Cesar Mauricio Velasquez is just one of many of former President Alvaro Uribe’s staff to be either indicted or convicted over a massive scandal over the administration’s spying on the Supreme Court, journalists, human rights defenders and political opponents.
The wiretapping by the now-devolved Colombian intelligence agency DAS targeted a multitude of officials who were seen as capable of uncovering ties between powerful politicians, including the former president’s cousin, and members of paramilitary organization AUC. The long list of those tapped includes everyone from foreign diplomats to the justices of the Colombian Supreme Court itself.
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The involved politicians had used their ties with the paramilitaries to get elected into Congress during the 2002 and 2006 elections and provided Uribe with a congressional majority.
More:
http://colombiareports.com/yet-another-former-uribe-official-charged-over-colombias-watergate/
