Colombia's president charged with fabricating charges against political rivals

[Judi Lynn]

by Adriaan Alsema October 12, 2020

Colombia’s increasingly authoritarian president Ivan Duque is facing his fifth criminal charge, this time for allegedly trying to pin a 1995 assassination on one of his predecessors.

Duque and his political patron, former President Alvaro Uribe, Prosecutor General Francisco Barbosa and former mafia attorney Diego Cadena have all been charged by former intelligence chief Ramiro Bejerano.

Real conspiracy charges
According to Bejerano, Duque’s patron and allies were conspiring to fabricate criminal charges against former President Ernesto Samper, Bejerano’s former boss, for the 1995 assassination of former presidential candidate Alvaro Gomez.

The Supreme Court found that the former president and the mafia lawyer in 2008 were seeking benefits for extradited drug traffickers who could support a conspiracy theory claiming Samper (Liberal Party) was behind the assassination of late his conservative rival.

More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-president-charged-with-fabricating-charges-against-political-rivals/

[wcmagumba]

1. Wow, this sounds sort of like trump...nt

[RKP5637]

2. Yeah, I was just thinking the same. Trump, I think, is the most dangerous character

we've had in US politics. He's the F'en president and he's talking about putting the other party in jail. Phew, just how F'ed up that is. This moron Trump is dangerous as hell.