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Colombia prosecutors move to drop case against ex-president

By ASTRID SUÁREZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 7, 2018 file photo, Colombia's former President and Senator Alvaro Uribe arrives to the inauguration ceremony for Colombia's new president Ivan Duque in Bogota, Colombia. Uribe has been ordered freed from house arrest while he is investigated for possible witness tampering. A judge ordered Uribe’s release Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, in a case that has divided the South American nation and exposed lingering tensions over Colombia’s peace accord for ending a half-century conflict with leftist guerrillas. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Judge orders ex-Colombian president freed from house arrest

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 9, 2006 file photo, Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe, center, speaks with Defense Minister Camilo Ospina, second left, during a police ceremony in Bogota, Colombia. The U.S. Department of Defense suspected back then that the now former president harbored ties with violent paramilitaries but likened it to a necessary evil in the fight against leftist rebels, according to a newly declassified memo from his early years in office. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

US cables: Colombia’s ex-president suspected of militia ties

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2019 file photo, senator and former president Alvaro Uribe arrives to the Supreme Court for questioning in an investigation for witness tampering charges in Bogota, Colombia. Uribe announced his resignation from the Senate Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020, while he is investigated by the Supreme Court for possible witness tampering in a case that has polarized the nation. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)

Ex-Colombia President Uribe resigning Senate seat amid probe

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2019 file photo, senator and former president Alvaro Uribe arrives to the Supreme Court for questioning in an investigation for witness tampering charges in Bogota, Colombia. Uribe will not be allowed to remain at liberty while the Supreme Court investigates the allegations against him, current President Ivan Duque said in a video address Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)

Court record in Colombia reveals Uribe’s mounting legal bind

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2019 file photo, senator and former president Alvaro Uribe arrives to the Supreme Court for questioning in an investigation for witness tampering charges in Bogota, Colombia. Uribe will not be allowed to remain at liberty while the Supreme Court investigates the allegations against him, current President Ivan Duque said in a video address Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)

House arrest of Colombia’s Uribe exposes post-peace tensions

By CÉSAR GARCÍA and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2019 file photo, senator and former president Alvaro Uribe arrives to the Supreme Court for questioning in an investigation for witness tampering charges in Bogota, Colombia. Uribe will not be allowed to remain at liberty while the Supreme Court investigates the allegations against him, current President Ivan Duque said in a video address Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)

Powerful Colombian ex-president ordered under house arrest

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Senator and former president Alvaro Uribe arrives to the Supreme Court for questioning in an investigation for witness tampering charges in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. Uribe is under investigation over allegations he made false accusations and tried to influence members of a former paramilitary group in a case he started by making similar accusations against leftist Senator Ivan Cepeda. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Ex-Colombia president questioned on witness tampering

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO and CÉSAR GARCÍA - Associated Press

In this June 17, 2018, file photo, Ivan Duque, candidate of the Democratic Center party, gives a thumbs-up to supporters after voting in the presidential runoff election in Bogota, Colombia. Duque will be sworn in as the new leader of Colombia on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, tasked with guiding the implementation of a historic peace accord with leftist rebels that remains on shaky ground. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Ivan Duque, incoming Colombia president, faces long list of challenges

By Manuel Rueda - Associated Press

Former Colombian President and Sen. Alvaro Uribe speaks during a press conference at his home in Rionegro, Colombia, Monday, July 30, 2018, a week after Colombia's Supreme Court ordered him to testify on allegations of witness tampering. Uribe gave a detailed explanation in refuting the accusations against him. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides)

Ex-Colombia president withdraws Senate resignation letter

Associated Press

Former President and re-elected Senator Alvaro Uribe talks to fellow congressmen during the inauguration of the newly-elected legislature in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, July 20, 2018. Under the terms of the 2016 historic peace agreement ending more than five decades of bloody conflict, the one-time guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, are guaranteed 10 seats in congress. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Powerful ex-Colombia president vows to resign from Senate

By MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

Supporters of Ivan Duque, candidate of the Democratic Centre party, celebrate the presidential election results in Bogota, Colombia, on Sunday. (Associated Press Photographs)

Ivan Duque wins Colombia’s presidential race

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

Colombia's former President Alvaro Uribe stands between Ivan Duque, presidential candidate for Democratic Center party, right, and his running mate Martha Lucia Ramirez during a campaign rally in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, May 20, 2018. Colombians will go to the polls on May 27 for a first round presidential election. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Declassified US cables link Uribe to Colombia drug cartels

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Colombian Ambassador Juan Carlos Pinzon said coca growers have adjusted to the easing of harsh eradication efforts backed by successive U.S. governments, coating the coca leaves with jelly to frustrate aerial spraying and planting the coca amid legal crops or in national parkland. (Associated Press/File)

Juan Carlos Pinzon, Colombian ambassador, firm on peace with FARC, war on coca

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe told the Associated Press via a text message Monday that he would have no further comment beyond a tweet a day earlier saying he hoped "Santoyo and the police institution would explain the case." (Associated Press)

U.S indicts ex-security chief for Uribe

By Libardo Cardona - Associated Press

Police inspect the scene after a bomb exploded in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, May 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Carlos Julio Martinez)

2 dead in Bogota bombing targeting former minister

By Vivian Sequera - Associated Press

Cables: Colombia’s Uribe reached out to FARC

By VIVIAN SEQUERA - Associated Press

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Chavez threatens to halt sale of oil to U.S.

By Ian James - Associated Press

Venezuela breaks ties with Colombia over rebels

By Christopher Toothaker - Associated Press

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