Powerful ex-Colombia president vows to resign from Senate
Powerful ex-Colombia president vows to resign from Senate
Manuel Rueda, Associated Press
Updated 11:16 pm CDT, Tuesday, July 24, 2018
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Influential former President Alvaro Uribe said he would resign from his Senate seat Tuesday after Colombia's Supreme Court ordered him to testify on allegations of witness tampering.
Uribe tweeted that he felt "morally impeded" from continuing in his role as a senator while also mounting a defense against accusations that he has he refuted.
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For several years the powerful ex-chief of state has been involved in a protracted legal dispute related to long-simmering and vehemently denied claims of ties to right-wing paramilitary groups.
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Uribe has been dogged by allegations of links to drug cartels and paramilitaries since the start of his political career in the early 1980s, when the civil aviation agency he led was accused of giving air licenses to drug traffickers. U.S. State Department cables declassified in May showed U.S. officials were told more than two decades ago that Uribe had ties to drug cartels.
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