Friday, March 5, 2010

In anticipation

In anticipation of an unfavorable decision, Alvaro Uribe appears to have taken the lead. From February 5 last few days after the contents of the judge Humberto Sierra Porto was known, the Colombian president met at the Palacio de Narino two contenders to succeed him: his former Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos and Andres Felipe Arias. The first is crowned by its success in the fight against the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), greatly weakened, and the recovery of part of the territory by the army. It is now possible to travel in the Colombian cities and between them by road without being abducted.

A policy of "democratic security" which is the outgoing president a high popularity. Juan Manuel Santos as its active operation of the ambitious release of Ingrid Betancourt who has ridiculed the FARC. Officials of the State Security had been masquerading as a humanitarian organization and embarked helicopter more than a dozen hostages in the middle of the rainforest, without a shot was fired. Andres Felipe Arias is it a pillar of Uribe's party held the Congress.

Álvaro Uribe wants to prevent the opposition takes advantage for acne decision of the Constitutional Court. He fears that the Liberal party or the party will make Polo good scores legislative March 14. His first concern is to preserve the unity of his followers, a difficult task because their only link is their support for Uribe. With an invigorated opposition, the court could intensify its work on the "parapolitics", a term that refers to the scandal of links between some politicians often close to Uribe and the paramilitaries who committed countless massacres over the past twenty years. The President's own cousin, Mario Uribe, a former senator, was arrested last week on the orders of the Supreme Court.