Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe will be placed under house arrest as part of a witness-tampering investigation against him.
Human rights activists and others call for emergency measures to ease overcrowding in Colombia’s jails after a weekend riot set off by restrictive coronavirus measures left 23 prisoners dead.
Though he left the presidency a decade ago, Uribe has continued to exert his influence over the nation’s politics and was instrumental in launching Duque, a young, relatively inexperienced congressman, into the presidency in 2018. He led the “no” campaign in 2016 in which Colombians voted against a historic peace accord with leftist rebelsThe Supreme Court magistrates said in a statement that the house arrest order was based on “a great quantity of evidentiary material,” including testimonies and intercepted phone calls, that indicate Uribe’s “presumed participation” in bribing witnesses and procedural fraud. The alleged actions happened after the investigation began.
“The level of polarization in the country is just going to increase significantly,” said Sergio Guzman, director of Colombia Risk Analysis. “Colombia during the pandemic has had a cause to unite around, and this is going to rip us apart.”Get all the day's most vital news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning.
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