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October 22, 2025

Court Overturns Conviction of Colombia's Former President Álvaro Uribe
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In Colombia, an appeals court has overturned the conviction of former
president and U.S. ally Álvaro Uribe for witness tampering and bribery.
Uribe had been sentenced to 12 years of house arrest for allegedly
bribing imprisoned members of paramilitary groups to retract damaging
testimony exposing Uribe's ties to right-wing, U.S.-backed paramilitary
groups. Uribe ruled Colombia from 2002 to 2010, during which time there
were thousands of extrajudicial killings of civilians, who were then
purposely mislabeled as rebel fighters in what became known as the
"false positives" scandal.


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