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Donald Trump, President of the United States, He congratulated former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, after hearing the decision of a judge who issued the order for his release and described him as a hero.
Judge Clara Ximena Salcedo released Uribe, who spent two months in preventive detention imposed by the Supreme Court of Justice for a case of alleged procedural fraud and bribery of witnesses.
(Context: Judge orders the release of Álvaro Uribe Vélez)
Trump, through a message on his Twitter account, wrote “Congratulations to former president @AlvaroUribeVel, hero, former recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and ally of our country in the fight against CASTRO-CHAVISMO! I will always be with our Colombian friends! ”.
Congratulations to the former president @AlvaroUribeVel, hero, former recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and ally of our country in the fight against CASTRO-CHAVISMO! I will always be with our Colombian friends!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 10, 2020
Similarly, the campaign of the US president. “We are pleased to know that former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has been released from house arrest”, Fabio Andrade, a member of Latinos for Trump, said in a statement released by the Republican leader’s campaign.
(Read also: ‘We are going to appeal the decision’: Cepeda on Uribe’s freedom)
Andrade indicated that last August the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, “He asked that Uribe, who is a hero, be allowed to defend himself as a free man.”
In addition, Andrade described as “shameful” what he considered “silence” of the former vice president and Democratic candidate for the White House, Joe Biden, and indicated that he is “backed by the ex-M-19 guerrilla leader Gustavo Petro”, who is a Colombian senator and he was mayor of Bogotá.
The member of the official campaign called on voters not to be wrong, noting that if Biden is elected his administration will be led “by the same Castro-Chavistas who control his campaign.”
The 30th criminal judge with guarantees function in Bogotá, Clara Ximena Salcedo, announced her decision to grant Uribe freedom. Minutes later, Uribe, who participated in the virtual audience, expressed on social networks: “Thank God.”
/ Also read: This is how the former president celebrated the judge’s decision)
Following the house arrest order issued by the Supreme Court of Justice, Uribe resigned his post as senator in mid-August, thereby losing his jurisdiction and consequently the case went to the Prosecutor’s Office.
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