Colombia's congress opens preliminary probe into Uribe's re-election (Bush ally)

[Judi Lynn]

Source: International Herald Tribune/Associated Press

Colombia's congress opens preliminary probe into Uribe's re-election

The Associated Press
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

BOGOTA, Colombia: A Colombian congressional panel has opened a preliminary investigation into President Alvaro Uribe in a scandal over alleged favors offered a lawmaker to enable his 2006 re-election.

The investigation began Tuesday. The commission will determine whether a complaint by opposition lawmakers merits a probe or should be shelved.

Former lawmaker Yidis Medina is under arrest in the scandal.

She has testified that aides of Uribe offered her political appointments in exchange for voting to change the constitution so Uribe could run for a second term.



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Álvaro Uribe

[fascisthunter]

1. But Uribe is a Fascist and He's on Bush's Side

He's friendly to the neo-nuts........

[Peace Patriot]

2. Chavez puts his term limit to A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE. Uribe bribes and bullies

legislators behind the scenes to get his changed.

Now...which one is the democrat worthy of $5.5 BILLION in U.S. taxpayer aid? Ah, the SCUMBAG who bribes and bullies, and has VERY close ties to the death squads, who torture and slaughter union leaders and other leftists, and to major drug traffickers! Uh-huh.

Chavez, who has harmed no one, bombed no one, arrested no one unfairly, and who was elected WITHOUT opposition politicians and voters getting shot (as they do in Colombia)--and was elected, indeed, in highly transparent conditions that put our elections to shame--and who has run a scrupulously lawful, beneficial government for ten years, gets slandered as a "dictator" for merely proposing that he run again, in a vote of the people (along with equal rights for women and gays, which probably killed his 69 amendment proposals in Catholic Venezuela), while the real scumbag and criminal, Uribe, gets away, literally, with murder, and every kind of devious behavior, just like his mentors in the White House.

Well, I hope this investigation of Uribe's dirty election tactics is a sign that his White House and global corporate predator backers are abandoning him, for failure on several scores (failing to hand Chavez a diplomatic disaster with dead hostages; failure to get a war started with Ecuador and Venezuela; failure to convince anybody in South America that the "miracle laptops" are credible; among other failures). He's kind of like Bush. His usefulness is about used up. Democracy has awakened and is thriving in South America (and maybe here, too?), and the Corporate Rulers need a Plan B for regaining control of all that oil in Venezuela and Ecuador, and other resources and opportunities for plundering the poor that have been denied to them by DEMOCRATIC governments like Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. IOKIYABA. (You'll have no difficulty figuring out what that means.) -nt

[Judi Lynn]

4. Lawmakers begin probe of Uribe reelection

Lawmakers begin probe of Uribe reelection

A preliminary probe was opened in Colombia amid accusations of favors offered by President Alvaro Uribe in exchange for reelection support.

Posted on Thu, May. 29, 2008

BOGOTA -- (AP) -- A Colombian congressional panel opened a preliminary investigation into President Alvaro Uribe in a scandal over alleged favors offered a lawmaker to enable Uribe's 2006 reelection.

The investigation began Tuesday, said Rep. Edgar Ulises, a member of the Commission of Accusations of the Chamber of Representatives, which is to determine whether a complaint by opposition lawmakers merits a probe or should be shelved.

Former lawmaker Yidis Medina has testified that aides of Uribe offered her political appointments in exchange for voting to change the constitution so Uribe could seek a second term.

Medina said that in 2004 Uribe, then-Interior Minister Sabas Pretelt and then-secretary general of the presidency Alberto Velásquez offered her ''whatever she wanted'' in exchange for her vote favoring the reelection.
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The commission, which is largely made up of backers of Uribe, is the only tribunal that can judge a sitting president.

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