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“We must insist on the repeal of the JEP and on reforming the Havana Accords, saving respect and support for those reinserted in good faith,” said Uribe Vélez in the middle of his speech.
The ex-president affirmed that the previous government established a judicial system with total impunity for kidnapping and rape. In addition, he assured that the truth has become a mechanism to deny and edit the facts according to political interests and that the victims continue to be mocked in the middle of this process.
Uribe affirmed that the reforms to the JEP and the peace agreement are necessary to reach agreements with other organizations such as the ELN and to defeat impunity and narco-terrorism in Colombia. “We cannot allow narco-terrorism and the socialist project to nullify Colombian capacities,” he emphasized.
Regarding the process that is now being carried out against the Prosecutor’s Office, the former president thanked his team of lawyers, led by Jaime Granados and Jaime Lombana, and also his family, his colleagues from the Democratic Center and the citizens who have surrounded him during this process.
He also thanked the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and Vice President Mike Pence, as well as former Presidents Andrés Pastrana and Bill Clinton.
Uribe assured that both he and his family have been victims of the greatest journalistic, political and judicial scrutiny and, as he affirmed, in the middle of the investigation it has seemed normal that witnesses are bribed to accuse him, while his defense in the framework of the law.
He affirmed that in the middle of the investigation 22,000 communications from his cell phone were illegally intercepted, however, he assured that there is not a single one of them that violates the Criminal Code.
The ex-president also criticized that his defense could not question the “misnamed star witness, convicted of kidnapping for extortion. That witness ended up surprisingly the owner from jail of half of a coffee farm with a value of more than 500 million, “said the former president.
He also referred, without mentioning his name, to Senator Cepeda, who is considered a victim in the process, and stated that he visited the witness in the case 11 times. In addition, he assured that Cepeda has made important donations to an NGO that has paid money to the witness’s family.
“The senator who accuses me, an alleged victim, has been a constant visitor to prisons in the country and abroad to offer benefits in exchange for obtaining statements against my family and myself,” he said.
He referred critically to the magistrate who was the rapporteur for his arrest, of whom he stated that he never stated his contractual ties with the Havana peace process.
He affirmed that the magistrate attributes direct contact with the witness, a link that does not exist. In addition, he attributes a letter to pressure the star witness in the case, which is instead a response to an incident of contempt of a guardianship that the former senator lost.
“The Magistrate alleges a direct contact of mine that has never existed with a witness abroad, extradited by my government and visited by the senator,” said Uribe.
“I wish that Dr. Diego Cadena, the people investigated in the council of the judiciary, and the witnesses certified and intimidated because they confirmed my complaints can clarify and overcome the difficulties,” asked the ex-president.
The former president also referred to the initiatives that he will continue to promote with his colleagues from the Democratic Center from the Congress and explained that they will insist on an agenda that includes the reduction of the working day and the solidarity bonus for the Colombian population.
He affirmed that they will think of a referendum that reduces Congress and guarantees solidarity income, repeals the JEP and grants guarantees to the Colombian Armed Forces, as well as to the demobilized in good faith.
“We will advance in initiatives of social and economic progress that are the alternative to the socialist risk that aims to replicate the failure of Venezuela and Nicaragua and that tends blankets of uncertainty over other countries in the region,” he emphasized.
Legislative agenda
The ex-president affirmed that the country will respond to the risk of socialism with “more security, more companies, more cohesion, more education, more entrepreneurship and more remuneration.”
Finally, the former Colombian president affirmed that he will continue the fight for his honor and will not give up warning of the dangers that threaten the country, since rest and resignation are not part of his options.
“For the defense of freedom and democracy until the end. Be careful with 22 ”, Uribe Vélez closed.
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