00:00The Colombian court overturned former President Álvaro Uribe's convictions for fraud and bribery on Tuesday, setting the stage for further appeals in the case.
00:08The ruling was reached after two judges on a panel of three voted to strike down the verdict against the ex-president, citing structural deficiencies in the previous ruling, including insufficient evidence.
00:20Colombian President Gustavo Pedro denounced the decision and said it granted impunity to politicians who came to power in alliance with drug traffickers and who unleashed a genocide in the country.
00:33Uribe had been sentenced in August to 12 years of house arrest, a fine of $578,000 and a ban from serving in public office for 100 months and 20 days.
00:44Senator Iván Cepeda, one of the central figures in the Uribe case, has already denounced his plans to challenge the court decision.
00:52Through his ex-account, Colombian President Gustavo Pedro stated,
01:00The Superior Court of Bogotá repeats history, contradicts the Supreme Court of Justice, and asserts that the judicial interception carried out by a magistrate of the Supreme Court against a criminal, in which Uribe's voice appears, talking about bribes, is private intimacy.
01:17This is how the history of paramilitary governance in Colombia is covered up.
01:21That is, the history of the politicians who came to power, allied with drug trafficking, and who unleashed the genocide in Colombia.
01:30Now Trump, allied with these politicians and with Uribe, will seek sanctions against the president who denounced in his life the alliances between Colombian political power and paramilitary drug trafficking in Colombia.
01:43And he does so with the help of those who help paramilitarism in the country.
01:49In the Accusations Commission, they are already seeking those involved in the embezzlement of FOMAC, the Coupe d'État, so the time for definitions has arrived, and the one who finds it is not Trump, it is the people.
02:03I await you in the Coupe d'État de Bolívar, Bogotá, this Friday, to begin the collection of signatures from the constituent power.
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