(29 Jul 2025)
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Bogota, Colombia – 28 July 2025
1. Posters stuck on the wall saying (Spanish) ‘Uribe to prison.’
2. Banner with the face of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe placed on the wall in front of the Judicial Complex reading (Spanish): ‘Uribe Guilty’
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ivan Borquez, supporter of senator Ivan Cepeda:
"We hope it will be a guilty verdict because there is all the evidence and everything points to it."
4. Protester with a sign reading (Spanish) ‘Uribe to prison’
5. Various of supporters of former President Álvaro Uribe with cardboard cutouts of his face
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sandra Forero, supporter of former President Uribe:
"The trial has been public, all the evidence has been shown that there has been manipulation here, but there is a second instance and it will be appealed, as Uribe always does in a democracy and respecting the institutions to that second instance, but today Uribe has already proven his innocence."
7. Supporters of former President Álvaro Uribe
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ivan Cepeda, Senator and plaintiff against Alvaro Uribe:
"Today we call on our counterpart to respect and abide by the institutions and, above all, to respect justice. That is why today is a day to recognize justice as the guarantor of democracy and as an effective check on the most powerful politicians and their crimes."
9. Ivan Cepeda during a press conference
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ivan Cepeda, Senator and plaintiff against Alvaro Uribe:
"In our case, this ruling has established the truth about the sinister apparatus led by Uribe Velez and composed of numerous witnesses who tried to deceive justice."
11. Various of Uribe and Cepada supporters arguing
STORYLINE:
Supporters and opponents of Alvaro Uribe clashed briefly outside a court in Bogota where the former Colombian President was found guilty of bribery and witness tampering on Monday.
The ruling was announced by a judge following a nearly six-month trial in which prosecutors presented evidence that Uribe attempted to influence witnesses who accused the law-and-order leader of having links to a paramilitary group founded by ranchers in the 1990s.
Uribe, 73, was not in court for the verdict as the judge has so far not ordered his arrest. He followed the ruling from his home outside the city of Medellin but did not immediately make any comments about it.
Uribe faces up to 12 years in prison but a sentencing will be delivered in a separate hearing. He is expected to appeal the ruling.
The former president, who governed from 2002 to 2010 with strong support from the United States, is a polarizing figure in Colombia, where many credit him for saving the country from becoming a failed state, while others associate him with human rights violations and the rise of paramilitary groups in the 1990s.
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