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Andean Group - February 2012 (ISSN 1741-4466)
COLOMBIA: Facing a familiar battle
Relations between former President Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010) and the Colombian judiciary were fraught at the best of times. While for a long time his successor, President Juan Manuel Santos, was able to avoid similar clashes, a familiar dynamic has emerged in 2012, even if Santos has thus far managed to keep each exchange as an isolated event. This has been particularly important in preventing the president from gaining a reputation as a serial violator of the separation of powers, which many critics of the previous administration regularly argued was Uribe’s main flaw; however, Uribe himself has come out in criticism of President Santos for backing some judicial decisions that have affected former members of his administration, placing Santos in a lose-lose situation.
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