Testimony: how group on US terror list helped Uribe win Colombia's 2002 elections
March 5, 2021 Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe became president in 2002 with the help of a paramilitary group the US government had designated a foreign terrorist organization, according to a former member. A Medellin Court ordered to investigate the Bloque Metro’s use of terrorism to help Uribe become president in 2011 already, but has been stonewalled by the prosecution for a decade. In fact, the prosecution denied the group allegedly founded by Uribe in 1996 even existed for years, according to the court. In a testimony that came to light last year, a former member of Bloque Me...
Source: colombiareports.com