The State of Colombia vs Alvaro Uribe Day 3: the fixers and the prison mate
by Adriaan Alsema September 6, 2019
On the third day of Colombia’s trial of the century, the Supreme Court will be hearing two of former president Alvaro Uribe‘s fixers and the prison mate of a key witness accusing the far-right politician of forming a death squad.
Additionally, the court will hear a former member of the Cacique Pipinta paramilitary group whose former commander, “Alberto Guerrero,” has confirmed Uribe formed the Bloque Metro paramilitary group when he was governor of his home Antioquia province in the 1990s.
Witness #6 | “Jopra”
Jopra entered the AUC in 1999 and at one point became Guerrero’s personal security chief. He was arrested in 2007 and is currently serving a prison sentence for at least two homicides.
The former paramilitary is one of multiple former Cacique Pipinta Front members who have been called to testify by Uribe’s defense in an apparent attempt to discredit Guerrero’s claim he was a member of the Bloque Metro.
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