New committee to investigate 'yidispolitica' (Colombian bribery of legislators)

[Judi Lynn]

New committee to investigate 'yidispolitica'
Friday, 26 November 2010 15:36 Teresa Welsh

There are three new investigators because those that were carrying out the process before were not reelected. The previous head of the committee, Edgar Eulises Torres, could not continue after accusations of "parapolitics."

The term "Yidispolitica" refers to former Congresswoman Yidis Medina who was sentenced in 2009 for having received bribes to support Uribe's bid for a second term in power.

The new members of the committee are Orlando Velandia, a Liberal from Bogota, German Alcides Blanco, Conservative from Antioquia, and Hernan Penagos of Partido de la U in Caldas.

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/13141-new-committee-to-investigate-yidispolitica.html

[Peace Patriot]

1. Not sure if this change of committee members is good or bad but I hope that it means

more legal trouble for Alvaro Uribe and ultimately results in him and his puppetmasters in Washington paying for their many crimes in Colombia.

Not terribly hopeful--since the Obama administration is protecting Uribe (and Junior?). But Latin Americans are capable of surprising me.

Sounds like--if the HEAD of the committee, Edgar Eulises Torres, was involved in "parapolitics" (rightwing death squads) and he's now gone--this may be a good sign that the committee will get serious about Uribe's involvement in the bribery to extend his term of office.

But since Uribe is now teaching at Harvard and Georgetown and getting prestigious U.S. appointments to international legal committees, it doesn't much matter what Colombian legislators, prosecutors and judges do, does it? Uribe is a "made man" just like those who put him in power, gave him $7 BILLION and told him to feel free to kill as many leftists as he could.