Colombia’s former President Álvaro Uribe on trial for fraud, witness tampering
Trial proceedings against former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe began on Thursday, February 6, making Uribe the country’s first ex-head of state to take the defendant’s chair in a 21st-century court. The Colombian Prosecutors’ Office had formally charged Uribe, who served as Colombia’s president from 2002 to 2010, with bribery, procedural fraud, and witness tampering in…