Uribe opens Twitter attack on journalist

[Judi Lynn]

Uribe opens Twitter attack on journalist
Monday, 20 December 2010 07:43 Adriaan Alsema

Following a critical column about the business of Alvaro Uribe's son Tomas, Colombia's former President on Sunday accused a journalist of receiving money from a drug trafficker.

Uribe responded to a column published by Daniel Coronell wherein the journalist wrote about the Uribe's son Tomas' alleged mediation in Panama with a company that is under investigation for bribing Colombian officials to be granted public works. This accusation was made earlier by Miami newspaper El Nuevo Herald.

Coronell's article led to numerous Tweets by Uribe and his sons Tomas and Jeronimo, who accused the journalist of having ties to Pastor Perafan, a drug trafficker who is currently in jail in the United States.

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/13464-uribe-opens-twitter-attack-on-journalist.html

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Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe gives a public demonstration
of combing the human hair, as Ecuador's President Rafael Correa
acts as his spotter to make sure of his safety at all times.