00:00The conviction of former President Álvaro Uribe, the maximum leader of the right wing
00:04in Colombia, poses a series of challenges in some scenarios at the political and legal
00:07level that also transcend at the international level, corresponding in Antobar with the details.
00:14Once it was known the sense of the ruling by Judge Sandra Heredia condemning the former
00:20President Álvaro Uribe Vélez for the crimes of bribery in criminal proceedings and procedural
00:24fraud, the reactions have been multiple.
00:27For some analysts, it will affect in various areas.
00:33This is going to have an unquestionable political impact, I think it is going to be a momentary
00:38political impact of one or two weeks.
00:40He is still an important politician for Colombia, but he is a politician in decline.
00:45He was important because he was president 20 years ago.
00:48So I think the impact is being overestimated, but obviously the Democratic Center is going
00:53to come out and say they are politically persecuted and victims.
00:57I do not think this is going to last in the long term because they do not have a consolidated
01:01presidential candidate.
01:02It will be a one, two or three week downturn.
01:05The case also descended in the international arena.
01:15The U.S. Secretary of State made a statement rejecting the conviction against the former president.
01:20For specialists, his announcement of support for Uribe not only demonstrates his political
01:24closeness, but also represents a clear interference in Colombia's internal affairs.
01:29The relations between Colombia and the United States are accompanied by what are divergent political
01:38positions.
01:41But in any case it is convenient to maintain relations between the two countries for many
01:46reasons, economic, political, social, but this normality of relations cannot sacrifice
01:51the position of autonomy and sovereignty of the Colombian state.
01:58It is an unacceptable position, an interference that cannot be tolerated, and Colombia must
02:03emphatically reject this intervention of the United States Secretary of State.
02:10the United States Secretary of State.
02:14While human rights organizations expect Uribe to respect the ruling against him and reiterate
02:19that this is not a political trial and will wait until August 1st to hear the sentence
02:24that Judge Sandra Heredia will impose on Alvaro Uribe.
02:27In this regard, the prosecution has requested a sentence of nine years and the place of his
02:31imprisonment will be determined.
02:34The judge herself has outlined the possibility of house arrest.
02:38The defense of the condemned man has already warned that it will appeal the ruling for review
02:42in the second instance.
02:47What we hope in any case is that he does not turn this sentence against him into a court
02:51to continue destroying the institutionality, to continue affecting democratic governance.
02:59I believe it is time for him to retire from public life and take this as a lesson, because
03:04let's remember that this is not a political persecution of President Gustavo Petro.
03:12Let's remember that this started more than 14 years ago when he tried to indict before the
03:16Supreme Court of Justice, Senator Cepeda, for the same crimes for which he has been convicted
03:22today.
03:23After the publication of the sentence, Uribe's defense will have five days to file the appeal
03:34in the second instance.
03:35The appeal must be resolved by the Superior Court of Bogota, which must review the ruling
03:39and make a determination before October 16, when the criminal action against Uribe Vélez
03:44Picon Steinberg.
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