Venezuelan opposition leader sued in Colombia

[Catherina]

11. Thanks Judy. So Uribe is really upset about the Peace talks too.

It wasn't "so quickly" lol, I've been working on for a couple of hours now. I'm glad you found a source in English to start this OP.

I think the meeting was supposed to be secret but those pesky journalists spotted them, then spotted Uribe and one of them succeeded in getting video from security. I think that's why he's blowing a gasket.

How long do think Capriles sends out a tweet that he never met Uribe?

In one article I read, they wrote that on the tape, Uribe was clearly heard saying, "My cousin got screwed" (by President Santos).

I've been trying to find out who and how but his whole family is SO nasty, I can't figure it out. This is the article I was just reading. What an imagination Uribe has! What a liar. I don't think this is cousin in question since it's from 2012 but omg.

Ex-Colombian president's family face US extradition over drugs charges

Álvaro Uribe's niece and her mother are accused of having ties to Sinaloa cartel drug lord, Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán

Sibylla Brodzinsky in Bogotá
guardian.co.uk, Monday 11 June 2012

A niece of the former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe has been singled out by US officials as having ties to a drug trafficking clan while her mother awaits extradition to the US over claims she worked together with the world most wanted drug trafficker.

Dolly Cifuentes Villa was arrested last year after a request from a US federal court for alleged ties to the head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. Her daughter Ana Maria Uribe Cifuentes was recently placed on the US Treasury's list of people identified as acting on behalf of drug trafficking or terrorist organizations.

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On Sunday, Álvaro Uribe denied any knowledge of Jaime's relationship with Cifuentes Villa, or the existence of his niece, despite the fact the investigation has a fax of a birth certificate declaring Jaime Uribe as her father.

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Álvaro Uribe acknowledged that his brother had been arrested but said he had been released and charges were dropped, claiming Jaime was recovering from throat surgery in a local hospital at the time the calls were made. "His car phone was cloned by criminals," Alvaro Uribe tweeted.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/11/colombian-president-uribe-extradition-drug

He sure tweets a LOT too! I looked at his twitter earlier and it's crazy.

Colombia's ex-pres faces blowback over peace talks
Associated PressBy LIBARDO CARDONA | Associated Press – Thu, Mar 21, 2013

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Alvaro Uribe did more as president than any Colombian leader to weaken the South American nation's main leftist rebel group and he has been among the most vocal opponents of peace talks with the insurgents. Now, he's finding that his strident opposition to the negotiations is bringing him some unsought attention.

Uribe's high-profile role in what has become a fierce battle for this Andean nation's future has drawn new scrutiny to his ties to provincial politicians, military officers and landowners accused of backing illegal right-wing death squads that killed thousands of noncombatants in Colombia's decades-old dirty war.

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Uribe has been relentlessly attacking his successor, Juan Manuel Santos, the instigator and champion of the negotiations. Uribe insists Santos, who is up for re-election in May 2014 but has not declared his candidacy, is leading the country to ruin.

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"He's not the president of peace," Uribe told reporters Monday in his latest attack on Santos. "He's the president who asks the courts for impunity for terrorists, the president who got elected in the name of security and who is leading the country on the road to the re-establishment of violence."

Uribe has been both speaking and tweeting relentlessly against the talks.

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http://news.yahoo.com/colombias-ex-pres-faces-blowback-over-peace-talks-165515140.html