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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 04:06 PM
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Tweeting ex-president stirs up Colombian politics
Tweeting ex-president stirs up Colombian politics
Anthony Boadle
Reuters
3:16 p.m. CDT, June 10, 2011

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's ex-president Alvaro Uribe is fuming about the direction his successor is taking. And he's letting everyone know tweet-by-tweet.

Snide messages to his 470,000-plus Twitter followers are keeping Uribe in the limelight to the discomfort of current President Juan Manuel Santos, Uribe's former defense minister.

The microblogging feud, ironically, is helping Santos break with his past in violence-ridden Colombia and forge his own path as leader of a booming mineral-rich economy.

Uribe has railed in particular at Santos' flagship legislation that provides reparations to victims of Colombia's armed conflict and the restoration of lands seized from peasants by right-wing paramilitaries and landowners.

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/yourmoney/sns-rt-us-colombia-uribetre7592zu-20110610,0,198818.story
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naaman fletcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 05:39 PM
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1. Three cheers for Santos
A great president.
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