Colombia's Ex-President Convicted, Tsunami Prep and Other Top Photos This Week From Latin America

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Go to a prison, be limited to his house in Rionegro near Medellín, or on his estate in Cordoba called El ubérrimo, or remain in freedom. Those are the three possible destinations that today face Álvaro Uribe Vélez, the former president of Colombia who has been convicted in the first instance for two crimes against justice, and whose conviction will be known in the early afternoon of this Friday. Continue reading

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The sentence will be known this Friday.The former president was found guilty of bribery and fraud.The scenarios that open up.Will he go to jail?

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After the ruling, which the defense will appeal on August 11, the conservatism moves its files to define the course for the presidential elections of 2026The Colombian Justice condemns the former president Álvaro Uribe for manipulating witnesses The criminal proceedings against the former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe Vélez has concluded his first chapter after more than 10 years of investigations and all kinds of setbacks.The judge of a Bogo…

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BOGOTÁ (AP) — Within the Colombian left, Senator Iván Cepeda has earned the title of the man who defeated the influential Álvaro Uribe in a trial, the first former president of the South American country to be convicted in a first-instance case…