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April 13, 2021 Colombia’s prosecution misinformed the court in an apparent attempt to counter claims that former President Alvaro Uribe founded a paramilitary group in the 1990’s. In a report on the “Bloque Metro,” the prosecution’s Strategic Center for the Validation of Evidence claimed that the paramilitary group “made its first appearance in July 1998, handing out flyers.” This would be “two years after the family of [former] President Uribe had abandoned the (northeast Antioquia) region completely after the sale of Guacharacas,” the former president’s former family estate. “At that time,” the former president, “his wife Lina and their two sons, Tomas and Jeronimo, were living in Oxford” in the United Kingdom, according to the prosecution. ....
March 5, 2021 Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe became president in 2002 with the help of a paramilitary group the US government had designated a foreign terrorist organization, according to a former member. A Medellin Court ordered to investigate the Bloque Metro’s use of terrorism to help Uribe become president in 2011 already, but has been stonewalled by the prosecution for a decade. In fact, the prosecution denied the group allegedly founded by Uribe in 1996 even existed for years, according to the court. In a testimony that came to light last year, a former member of Bloque Metro told a prosecutor in detail how the paramilitary group terrorized people into voting for Uribe in the presidential election organized and monitored by the father of President Ivan Duque. ....