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Weekly Report - 26 July 2018 (WR-18-29)

COLOMBIA: Uribe waves goodbye to the senate

In an unexpected move influential hard-right former president Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010) announced on 24 July that he was resigning from his senate seat so as to face a widened set of charges brought against him by the supreme court, which now include accusations of bribery. The decision came only days before Uribe’s protégé, Ivan Duque of the Centro Democrático (CD) party, was due to take office as president on 7 August.

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