Colombian Ex-President Uribe Found Guilty in Landmark Trial
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Former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez became the first Colombian head of state to be convicted of a crime, a landmark decision expected to reverberate through the country's political system less than a year before presidential elections.
A judge in Bogota ruled on Monday that Uribe, who governed from 2002 to 2010, was responsible in the first instance for bribery of witnesses and obstruction of justice after a more than ten-hour hearing.
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