Jose Obdulio Gaviria
Colombia’s Prosecutor General is considering to officially investigate Jose Obdulio Gaviria, until recently the personal adviser of President Alvaro Uribe, for his alleged role in the scandal involving the illegal wiretapping of government opponents, Colombia Reports indicated on Saturday. (more…)
President Álvaro Uribe said in an interview with Dario Arismendi, director of Caracol Broadcasting, that he is more interested in the relection of the Democratic Security than in the upholding of the power in a single person. Before the insistence of the well-known journalist if he wants to present his name for a third presidencial period, Uribe said that he prefers to have many leaders able to continue what he calls the Democratic Security, his political scheme of work since his presidencial election in 2002.
Uribe explained that the Democratic Security has guaranteed investment and the end of the Paramilitary structure while he criticed that some of his opponents only want to suspend the Democratic Security that has reduced the influence of Farc guerrillas in the country.
He criticed also former sen. Yidis Medina and said that it was the opposition the one that gave her gifts to vote against the relection law.
Bogotá (CP). The elections of mayors and governors in Colombia last Sunday were rather normal and surprising, said different news agencies. Bogotá opted again for a leftist leader with Samuel Moreno, a member of the Polo Democratico Alternativo Party (PDA) and even after the controversial statements of President Uribe that were understood as an intervention in politics by some sources. President Uribe invited the Colombians to vote as an answer to terrorism threatens and said that Colombians should not elect candidates who buy votes or were supported by the guerrilla on the Internet. The words of the President were understood as a message against the candidacy of Moreno, but some members of the PDA said that the unproved accusations were actually a way to open the Moreno’s elections as the new major of the second South American city.
Medellín, the second largest city and one of the main industrial spots of Colombia, elected a journalist, Alonso Salazar, while Cartagena de Indias, the first tourist center of the country at the Caribbean Sea costs, preferred a woman with Judit Pinedo.
The Ministry of Justice reported disturbances in some regions of the country attributed to the Colombian Revolutionary Forces Army (FARC) and other incidents, but the events were not considered enough to interrupt the democratic Sunday in most part of the country.
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