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Álvaro Uribe Vélez CYC (born 4 July 1952) is a Colombian who served as the 31st President of Colombia from 7 August 2002 to 7 August 2010. [1] [2]Uribe started his political career in his home department of Antioquia.
Uribe was elected president of Colombia for the period 2002-2006 with 53% of the total votes (5,862,655 votes), defeating his main contender, Serpa, who obtained 31.8% of the votes (3,514,779 votes).; becoming the first president to win the elections in the first round since the measure was established in the 1991 Constitution.
BOGOTA (Reuters) -The Superior Court of Bogota on Friday rejected a prosecutor's request to shelve a witness tampering and fraud case against former President Alvaro Uribe, extending a long ...
President Alvaro Uribe ordered the cases to be handled by civilian courts to ensure impartiality. [ 1 ] According to reports in 2009, both former Defense Minister Santos and ex-President Uribe have claimed that there were cases of false claims, where legitimate killings were presented as "false positives" in order to stain the name of the ...
BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombian prosecutors will take ex-President Alvaro Uribe to trial in a witness tampering and fraud case, the attorney general's office said on Tuesday, saying it has presented a ...
Uribe, who served as president from 2002 to 2010, was under house arrest in this case for two months in 2020. He has always maintained his innocence. He has always maintained his innocence.
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said on Wednesday there was no proof to back up charges that he engaged in fraud and witness tampering, calling the long-running legal case against him ...
Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 28 May 2006. Álvaro Uribe was re-elected as President for another four-year term, starting on 7 August 2006. Uribe obtained 62.35% of the vote, surpassing the 50% needed to avoid a runoff against the second-placed candidate.