Uribe asks Obama to urge changes in pending Colombia peace deal
Uribe asks Obama to urge changes in pending Colombia peace deal
Posted by Adriaan Alsema on Feb 8, 2016
Colombia’s hard-line former President Alvaro Uribe publicly asked the United States on Sunday to reconsider its support for a pending peace deal with the FARC, and continue prosecuting and imprisoning guerrilla drug traffickers.
Uribe told local press he hoped that US President Barack Obama will use an increase in aid to put pressure on the government of Colombia’s Juan Manuel Santos.
Obama last week announced he will ask US Congress to increase funding for Colombia from $300 million a year to 450 million a year to financially support the costly process of demobilizing, disarming and reintegrating thousands of FARC members.
Uribe could’ve told Obama personally after being invited to the White House himself, but refused. The former President no longer fits in the same room as his former defense minister and successor.
More:
http://colombiareports.com/uribe-asks-obama-to-reconsider-policy-change-towards-colombia/
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He wants the U.S. to continue massacring HIS RIVALS in the drug trade!
Obama and Panetta are going to very much regret giving this arrogant little mafioso a "free pass" out of the godawful, criminal disaster of a Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Uribe run Colombia! Cushy academic sinecures at Harvard and Georgetown where he taught the course called: "How to look forward not backward on the crimes of the rich and powerful." Appointed to a prestigious international legal commission. U.S. intervention in the Drummond Coal death squad case by none other than Sec of State Hillary Clinton, pressuring the judge NOT to force Uribe to testify. Landed him on his feet, they did. And now he's going to try to scuttle the most important peace agreement of the last 50 years!
