A university professor on Tuesday publicly shamed Colombian ex-President Ernesto Samper, caling him a “criminal” at a congress.
The former head of state had just finished a lecture on the Colombian economy and drugs when professor Sandro Diaz took the floor and announced that he felt “honored to personally make the acquaintance of someone with a criminal past,” reffering to Samper’s successful 1994 election campaign which was partly funded by the now-defunct Cali cartel.
When the academic had finished his tirade, Ernesto Samper accused the professor of “watching too much of the Escobar television series which has given him a distorted view of reality.”
Samper has always insisted the drug money entered his campaign “behind his back.”