Este 10 de julio está citada la audiencia preparatoria de juicio a Álvaro Uribe

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In the Bleu, Colonel Daniel'
s report. Why what was going to

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happen in a minute isn' t
going to happen, so July. There

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' s a simple explanation. He
was quoted at the pre- trial hearing

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of former PresidentÁlvaro Uribe, but
priority should be given to filing an appeal

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for annulment. In short, six
years and five months have passed since the

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Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of
Justice in February of two thousand eighteen ordered

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the investigation of the former President al- Baruribe for bribery of witnesses and procedural

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fraud six years and five months.
In all this time, the trial has

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not been able to reach trial for
a dilate strategy to the defense that was

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reinforced by the prosecution of Francisco Barbosa
and the prosecutor' s office of Margarita

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Cabello. Today, at last,
the preparatory hearing for the trial was called

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for at eight o' clock in
the morning, that is, within a

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minute, but it will not happen. The defense of the former President of

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the Baruribe is asking for the annulment
of the prosecution' s indictment because,

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according to the lawyers of the former
President, it is not clear whether the

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prosecution accuses him of having acted with
direct dolo or eventual dolo, that is,

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whether he gave the order to bribe
witnesses by offering them legal proceedings,

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free of charge and cash payments or
whether he simply created or let create the

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conditions for such conduct to take place. The defence alleges that the principle of

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consistency between the charge and the charge
would otherwise be violated. The representation of

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victims, on the other hand,
maintains that the prosecution can legally vary the

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classification of conduct without violating the principle
of congruence. The judge of the Circuito

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de Bogotá, forty- four criminal
courts, flatly rejectedÁlvaro Uribe' s

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motion for annulment at the previous session, but the Bogotá High Court, two

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months later, decided on appeal that
the judge should have heard the defense'

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s arguments and ruled on the merits
of the petition for annulment. For that

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reason, the preparatory hearing cited for
today will not be held. This request

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for annulment will be discussed in place. We will witness the defense' s

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arguments to declare the proceedings null and
void, followed by the prosecution' s

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position that is being opened today by
a new owner of the Marlene Orjuela Rodríguez

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case, who will replace the former
prosecutor, Gilberto Villarreal, whose withdrawal coincided

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with a request by the former President
to the Baruribe to be changed, so

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that it would be removed from the
case. The new prosecutor is a long

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- time official with prestige in the
accusing lens. She' s also the

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fifth prosecutor. In charge of the
lengthy process of former President Uribe. It

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was preceded by Gabriel Ramón Jaimes and
Javier Cárdenas, prosecutors totally folded to Uribe

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' s defense, Andrés for Valencia, who resigned after having for months the

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process in his drawers, followed by
Victor Salcedo, who had to declare himself

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asked after here in the report it
was revealed that he had publicly expressed his

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opinion in Uribe' s favor.
The penultimate of the prosecutors, Gilberto Villarreal

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finally decided to charge in a not
especially brilliant writing and was then relieved of

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the case. The decision of the
judge, who will probably respond to the

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lengthy argument with the substantive reasons for
rejecting the application for annulment, will be

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followed by a further appeal to the
Bogotá High Court. There will be two

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additional months of postponement pending a further
decision. Thus, the expiry of terms

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by statute of limitations of criminal proceedings
is gradually approaching. On October 7,

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two thousand and twenty- five,
the file will be filed. For that

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reason, it is enough for the
defence to burn time until that date,

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which is already fifteen months away.
If there is no second- instance decision

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in the process on October 7th,
the former President Uribe will be protected by

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the statute of limitations and all these
years of recent evidence will not stop at

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all. Meanwhile, Attorney General Margarita
Cabello, who, through her delegates,

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has joined the defense of the former
President Uribe, is asking the Constitutional Court

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to review a tutelage action by the
so- called attorney Diego Cadena, who

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seeks to cancel telephone interceptions in the
process, arguing that they violate the client

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lawyer relationship. Chain guardianship has already
been denied in two instances, including the

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Supreme Court of Justice. His arguments
were also defeated in disciplinary proceedings that concluded

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that Cadena incurred ethical misdemeanours that merit
the suspension of his professional card. Although

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high school isn' t going to
start today, the hearing that starts in

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minutes or maybe already started, is
going to be extremely interesting, especially for

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the debut of the new prosecutor in
the case. There' s a bonus

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track. Former U S President Donald
Trump was on the verge of attending today

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' s Colombia National Team match against
Uruguay at n Cha, Charleston, North

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Carolina. A few weeks ago,
members of former President Trump' s campaign

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talked to directors of the CONMEBOL South
American Football Confederation, with the aim of

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having the former president attend a game
of the Copa América. Initially. The

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chosen date was September 30 at Austin
Stadium, Texas. When teams from Jamaica

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and Venezuela faced each other. Apparently, the Texas stadium was not approved by

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the Secret Service and it was decided
to switch to North Carolina for today.

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The decision was made when the teams
in the semi- final were not yet

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known. However, yesterday, when
everything was ready, the local authorities of

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North Carolina were notified of the cancellation
of Donald Trumpa' s surprise visit to

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the game that will decide tonight if
Colombia reaches the final of the Copa América.

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This was today' s colonel report. Thank you very much, imagine

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the madness of that stadium. Daniel. I want to go back to the

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case of the former President Uribe,
because yesterday we read a trine of him

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and it is another different action that
is being advanced and that I believe was

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accepted by some court to seek to
take into account the conversations of him and

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his lawyer? If that legal action
were to succeed and cannot be taken into

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account, in the case of the
former president' s conversations with his lawyer,

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that would also further delay the process
or in some way rethink it,

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it can rethink it in a very
drastic way Julio. But look, it

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is an oblique path that has been
followed in this, because they are resolving

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or are asking Attorney General Margarita Cabello
to the Constitutional Court for an appeal to

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review a tutelage action that has already
been ruled in two instances against the diego

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chain, although this has not directly
to do with the case. If the

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Constitutional Court decides that they are not
valid evidence, it will certainly also influence

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the process of former President Alvaro Uribe. For the rest, lawyer Jaime Granados

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is insisting that there is no proper
charge and in the old argument that imputation

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and inquiry are not equivalent, which
has already been defeated in several judicial instances.

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But he, periodically comes back with
this and as they solve it,

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he leaves. We are earning another
two months and another two months and another

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two months until the arrival of October
seven of two thousand twenty- five,

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everyone for their home and the case
will have ended by prescription of the criminal

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action. This was today' s
colonel report.