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*A Colombian court has found the country's former President Álvaro Uribe guilty of witness tampering.
*People react in favor of the historic verdict against Alvaro Uribe. teleSUR

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00:00A Colombian court has found the country's former President Álvaro Uribe guilty of witness
00:06tampering.
00:07Uribe, who served as president from 2002 to 2010, was convicted on Monday of trying to
00:13persuade witnesses to lie for him in a separate investigation, and the prosecutor is asking
00:20for a nine-year prison sentence.
00:22The case dates back to 2012, when Uribe accused the left-wing Senador Iván Cepeda of hatching
00:29a plot to falsely link him to right-wing paramilitary groups of the country.
00:35The court decided against prosecuting Cepeda and pursued his claims against Uribe, who
00:40becomes Colombia's first-ever former head of state to be convicted of a crime.
00:49And let's go over some of the reactions in the social networks to this historic verdict
00:54against Álvaro Uribe.
00:55Senator for the historical pact, María José Pizarro Rodríguez, stated that the Colombian
01:01justice system has found former President Uribe guilty.
01:05And not only that, the women who participated in the trial made history by upholding the
01:10name of the judiciary without allowing themselves to be intimidated.
01:14Then, she continued by highlighting that, after taking this huge step, it is now up to the
01:21justice system to thoroughly investigate the allegations made by Juan Guillermo Monsalve
01:26decades ago, the role of the Uribe-Vélez family in the formation of the paramilitary group
01:32Blob Metro, in the massacres of El Aro and La Granja, and in the murder of Jesús María
01:37Valle, among hundreds of other serious human rights violations.
01:43Presidential pre-candidate Camilo Romero stated that today is a historic day for Colombia.
01:47Álvaro Uribe is now history, from the beginning until today.
01:52He has practiced politics through deception, fear and attacks on democracy that will be
01:57his legacy.
01:58Beyond the meaning of the ruling, Uribe has already been condemned by history, 6,402 false
02:06positives.
02:07Just the political does, and this is all linked to paramilitarism, agro-income, security, witnesses
02:16strangely dead or missing.
02:19For their part, the Organization of Mothers of False Positives of Colombia stated that justice
02:24is slow, but it will come, even though some of the most powerful people in the country
02:29are doing everything they can to cover up for the world lord.
02:39With science-reading priests in for Uribe, demonstrators rallied in front of the Colombian
02:44Court of Justice, where the judge read the verdict on former President Álvaro Uribe's case.
02:49Today, we are demanding a guilty verdict from the judge, the evidence is overwhelming,
02:56and the lawyers and victims have clearly shown the extent of the permanent, and systematic
03:00human rights violations that have occurred.

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