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Weekly Report - 16 June 2011 (WR-11-24)

COLOMBIA: Uribe rains on his successor's parade

"The jewel in the crown of his achievements." That is how Colombia's national daily El Tiempo described the victims' law, which President Juan Manuel Santos, flanked by the UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, ratified during a solemn ceremony in the Casa de Nariño on 10 June. Ban said the law was "a fundamental step to begin resolving the conflict that the Colombian people have endured for decades," and was "unprecedented during an active armed conflict". Lest he get too carried away with his own success, Santos can tune in to the constant ‘tweeting' of his predecessor, Alvaro Uribe. Not only has Uribe been openly critical of the victims' law but he has also questioned the commitment of the Santos administration to upholding his ‘democratic security policy' (DSP).

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