Through a message on his X account, President Gustavo Petro referred this Tuesday to the decision of the Superior Court of Bogotá to revoke the first instance sentence against former President Álvaro Uribe for the crimes of bribery and procedural fraud.
(Read: Court topples conviction against former President Uribe and revokes sentence for procedural fraud).
“The Superior Court of Bogotá repeats history, contradicts the Supreme Court of Justice, and affirms that the interception that a Supreme Court magistrate made judicially of a criminal, in which Uribe’s voice appears talking about bribes, is privacy. This is how the history of paramilitary governance in Colombia is covered up, that is, the history of the politicians who came to power allied with drug trafficking and who unleashed the genocide in Colombia”Petro commented in his message.
(See: Colombia and the US: what happened this Monday with a new scuffle between Petro and Trump).
He added that now Donald Trump, “allied with these politicians and with Uribe”will seek the sanction “to the president who denounced in his life, the alliances between the Colombian political power and paramilitary drug trafficking in Colombia, and he does so with the help of those who helped paramilitarism in the country”.
The superior court of Bogotá repeats history, contradicts the Supreme Court of Justice, and affirms that the interception that a Supreme Court magistrate judicially made of a criminal, where Uribe’s voice appears talking about bribes, is privacy.
That’s how… https://t.co/2j3unJm2eL
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) October 21, 2025
He also said that the accusation commission is looking for a coup d’état, which is why he called on the people to begin collecting signatures for a constituent assembly.
“The time for definitions has come and the one who defines is not Trump, it is the people. I wait for you in the Plaza de Bolívar in Bogotá this Friday to begin collecting the signatures of the constituent power”he wrote in his message.
(Besides: ‘Top’ 10 of Colombia’s leaders is headed by the president of Bancolombia).
The Superior Court of Bogotá this Tuesday acquitted former President Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010) in the second instance of the crime of procedural fraud, as he had already done for bribery in criminal proceedings, when his defense appeal for a 12-year prison sentence that was imposed last August failed.
“In conclusion, the absence of direct inferential evidence of falsehood and suitable artifice prevents the criminal type of procedural fraud from being established. Therefore, the sentence must be revoked,” said Judge Manuel Antonio Merchán when reading today the ruling that overthrows the sentence imposed on Uribe by Judge Sandra Heredia, of the 44th Criminal Court of the Bogotá Circuit.
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