Colombia Publishes Ruling On Former President Uribe Trial

Senator Ivan Cepeda, following the verdict of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez, at the the Judicial Complex Paloquemao in Bogota, Colombia, on Monday, July 28, 2025. 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. The case centers on allegations that the right-wing leader, dispatched intermediaries to prisons to pressure former members of illegal armed groups into altering their testimony retracting accusations against him and instead implicating left-wing Senator Cepeda. Photographer: Jair F. Coll/Bloomberg via Getty Images