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Alvaro Uribe Velez

Alvaro Uribe Velez

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Sep 13, 2026

María Jimena DuzánHOST
8:58
Y según me cuentan mis fuentes, fue hasta el día de su nombramiento una de las personas que impulsó su nombre en el Consejo de Estado.
María Jimena DuzánHOST
9:08
Pero sin duda, el apoyo que más pesa en su favor es el del exmagistrado Marco Antonio Velilla, quien estuvo en la terna para fiscal, puesto por el propio entonces, eh, presidente Álvaro Uribe.
María Jimena DuzánHOST
9:24
Con semejantes padrinos, pues los otros posibles ternados como Carlos Medellín, de Cambio Radical, para mí el mejor candidato de los tres, y Alberto Rojas, del Liberalismo, pues están en franca desventaja.
María Jimena DuzánHOST
9:38
Rojas es más reconocido por sus dotes de politiquero que de jurista.
Steve MosesPANELIST
11:25
I did all of the dignitary protection training for the response team when we were responsible for providing security on both strategic national stockpile exercises, as well as some, you know, luminaries, like we bring in international world leaders for security.
Steve MosesPANELIST
11:46
events in the Fort Worth area, such as Alvaro Uribe.
Steve MosesPANELIST
11:51
He was the former president of Columbia and Vincente Fox, former president of Mexico.
Steve MosesPANELIST
11:59
I have been a level four personal protection officer since 2002.
Emily HartCORRESPONDENT
11:53
The latter word is included in the Colombian Constitution, which recognises campesino or smallholder farmers as a protected category of people, historically marginalised and one of the main victims of the country's armed conflict, thus requiring the state to address inequality and create stronger safeguards for their rights.
Emily HartCORRESPONDENT
12:13
And former President Álvaro Uribe testified in court on Friday about his role in the massacres at the El Aro and La Granja farms, as well as the murder of human rights defender Jesús María Valle.
Emily HartCORRESPONDENT
12:25
These are events which took place between 1996 and 1998, during Uribe's governorship of the Department of Antioquia.
Emily HartCORRESPONDENT
12:33
Uribe's complicity in these crimes has long been debated, as have his links to the paramilitary groups responsible for these atrocities, often in alliance with the Colombian military.
Emily HartCORRESPONDENT
12:44
On Friday, Uribe was questioned by the Attorney General.
Emily HartCORRESPONDENT
12:48
This ongoing case aims to determine whether Uribe, while governor of Antioquia, promoted the formation of paramilitary armies that carried out the massacres, murders, tortures and land grabs in the department, as well as whether he himself was involved in those crimes.
Emily HartCORRESPONDENT
13:04
And problems for another former president this week as airline Avianca cancelled Gustavo Petro's flights to and from Mexico for a planned meeting with Mexico's president.
Emily HartCORRESPONDENT
13:14
This was justified on the grounds of Petro's presence on the so-called Clinton list.
Alma GuillermoprietoGUEST
26:26
Se enamora de la hija de un guerrillero, se, se cree poeta, se cree artista, quiere ser presidente.
María Jimena DuzánHOST
26:38
[risas] Ahora, él le pasó una cosa, eh, cuando en todas las negociaciones con el-- con, eh, en Ralito, con el entonces presidente Álvaro Uribe, em, decidió tener como una línea que no cruzaba y era la línea del narcotráfico, cosa que me sorprendió mucho, porque, porque digo, bueno, a ver.
Alma GuillermoprietoGUEST
27:00
Sí.
María Jimena DuzánHOST
27:01
Y él dijo: "Acá no van a entrar los narcotraficantes".
Juan Carlos LozadaGUEST
69:37
A eso, a esto iba yo.
Juan Carlos LozadaGUEST
69:38
Mire, eh, estuve hace poco en un foro en el que estaba el vicepresidente de la Comisión Cuarta del Senado, que es, eh, un joven muy entusiasta del Centro Democrático, que fue secretario y UTL de Álvaro Uribe Vélez, y él fue muy claro.
César CaballeroGUEST
69:53
¿Cómo se llama?
Juan Carlos LozadaGUEST
69:54
Es que no lo recuerdo ahora, pero es el muchacho que presentó este proyecto inconstitucional para permitirle a la policía incautar la dosis mínima.

6 MINS LATER

María Jimena DuzánHOST
76:00
Eh, algo parecido está sucediendo con Kast en Chile, ¿sí? Eh, acaba con la derecha tradicional y venimos de la experiencia, obviamente, de Donald Trump, que se lleva de calle el Partido Republicano con esta nueva ultraderecha.
María Jimena DuzánHOST
76:17
Aquí, Abelardo de la Espriella planteó desde el inicio esa discusión.
María Jimena DuzánHOST
76:22
Y la pregunta que yo les hago a ustedes es, bueno, ¿va a pasar lo mismo que pasó en Estados Unidos, en Argentina, en Chile? Es decir, que van a terminar la nueva derecha absorbiendo a una, eh, eh, digamos, a ese que tigre, diría yo, que es Álvaro Uribe, porque es que ninguno tiene a Álvaro Uribe.
Juan Carlos LozadaGUEST
76:44
Si Abelardo es un tigre, ¿qué es Álvaro Uribe?
Emily HartCORRESPONDENT
6:04
And a floating prison on an adapted boat is reportedly also being prepared to isolate criminal bosses who re-offend or continue to run operations from prison.
Emily HartCORRESPONDENT
6:14
It is a measure not seen since 2007 under former President Álvaro Uribe, used to isolate the commanders of armed groups.
Emily HartCORRESPONDENT
6:24
And in broader policy news, the government accidentally revealed policy plans this week via the so-called Miracle Cycle Diagram.
Emily HartCORRESPONDENT
6:32
Visible in the background of photos of a National Planning Department meeting and subsequently published in full by journalists including Daniel Coronel, the graphic lays out seven policy areas, all miracle-themed, echoing the president's campaign rhetoric of the Miracle Homeland.
Andrey Gomez SuarezSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
6:42
I don't really know, to be honest, o- of any other case like that in the world.
Harriet BarberHOST
6:50
The crisis came to a head after the 2002 election of hardliner Alvaro Uribe.
Harriet BarberHOST
6:57
For Jaime, this was a life-changing moment.
Jaime Coral TrujilloSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
7:09
The government needed results.
Jorge EspinosaHOST
3:26
Pero no funcionó.
Jorge EspinosaHOST
3:28
Y la embarcación que se escoja tampoco se convertiría en la primera cárcel flotante en Colombia, porque en 2007, durante el gobierno de Álvaro Uribe, el narcotraficante Don Diego fue recluido en un buque en el Pacífico, mientras que el exjefe paramilitar Macaco fue llevado a una fragata en el Caribe porque continuaba delinquiendo desde prisión.
Jorge EspinosaHOST
3:49
Pero les adelanto algo: el debate será jurídico.
Jorge EspinosaHOST
3:52
Seguramente los abogados de estos condenados alegarán que ese aislamiento es un tratamiento cruel, de modo que este nuevo plan carcelario terminará muy pronto en los tribunales.
Maria Paula Hernandez RuizGUEST
7:04
As if to say, if you really care for your land, then you step up and you protect it to what it takes.
Maria Paula Hernandez RuizGUEST
7:11
So yeah, absolutely talked about, which is, again, an unheard of line in right-wing politics in Colombia, like Álvaro Uribe Vélez had it very strongly, you know, security through protecting the armed forces.
Maria Paula Hernandez RuizGUEST
7:26
Protecting them from what? Protecting them from being responsible to say, for example, human rights violations or just give them a lot of impunity in when fighting, you know, insurgency.
Jasmine WestendorfHOST
7:42
Yeah.

25 MINS LATER

Jasmine WestendorfHOST
32:44
So we have this complex history that you two have just laid out for us.
Jasmine WestendorfHOST
32:50
What does the election of what will be the new far-right government mean for peace or for the future of whatever process remains of the 2016 peace process, the demobilisation and so on?
Maria Paula Hernandez RuizGUEST
33:05
Well, this election is very similar to another election we had in 2002 between Horacio Serpa and Álvaro Uribe Vélez.
Maria Paula Hernandez RuizGUEST
33:18
It was a very similar kind of situation.
Brian WinterHOST
25:40
I, too, have noticed these difficulties that the president has had with the traditional Colombian right.
Brian WinterHOST
25:46
Perhaps the most visible sign of this was when Centro Democrático, the movement, the party of former President Álvaro Uribe, actually worked with President Petro's group in order to name the head of the Senate.
Brian WinterHOST
26:02
And it was, you know, it was a right-wing figure, but it was not the figure that President de la Espriella wanted.
Brian WinterHOST
26:09
How would you characterize the current climate between President de la Espriella and the traditional Colombian right that had governed the country for many of the past 25 years?

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