Uribe criticizes Santos' first year in office

[gbscar]

Uribe criticizes Santos' first year in office
Tuesday, 09 August 2011 11:38
Travis Mannon

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In an interview with Confidencial Colombia, Uribe accused Santos of using his administration's policies to get elected, but not to actually govern. According to the ex-president, "Santos was one of the most radical voices against the Victims Law," the passage of which is one of the hallmarks of Santos' presidency.

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The former president denounced Santos' investigations into the corruption of Uribe's government. "<My government> left a good inheritance and a corrupt government does not leave a good inheritance," Uribe said.

He also believes the Supreme Court violated the Colombian Constitution when it changed Uribe's list of candidates for the office of the prosecutor general. "What worries me is that the government permitted that violation."

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Finally, Uribe attacked Santos' relationship with Venezuela. He said does not understand why Colombia has relationships with a country that, "in the name of commercial interests, they sacrifice political freedoms, they sacrifice the law of the state, they sacrifice the security of the citizens, and they end up losing democracy."

http://www.colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/18200-uribe-criticizes-santos-first-year-in-office.html

[Bacchus39]

1. I was ready to agree with another poster and call Uribe a "dick" but its not like

what Uribe is saying isn't true necessarily. but Uribe does have to accept that Santos is running the show now.


relations with Ven are in fact based on commerical interests over all else. thus we get ridiculous statements from the Colombia side that the FARC isn't in Ven but we continue to hear reports of arrests of FARC members there.