Yet another former Uribe official charged over ‘Colombia’s Watergate’
The former Press Secretary of the past Alvaro Uribe administrations has been charged with...
Tag: Cesar Mauricio Velasquez
Uribe allies dismiss ‘Don Berna’ paramilitary ties allegations
Two aides of former President Alvaro Uribe who met with representatives of demobilized AUC leader “Don Berna” in 2008 reject the paramilitary leader’s claims that the meeting “gave more solidity to the...
Prosecutor reopens investigation into 2008 AUC-govt meeting
Colombia’s prosecutor general’s office has reopened an investigation into a meeting between the former AUC spokesman and several government officials that took place at the presidential palace in Bogota in 2008. The...
Former Uribe aide ‘here to tell the truth’
Former Press Secretary Cesar Mauricio Velasquez on Monday said he had come “to tell the truth” after being interrogated for his alleged role in the illegal wiretapping of government opponents. Velasquez, current...
