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05-17-2007, 08:00 PM
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BOGOTA, Colombia (*******) -- Colombia's "Watergate?" The South American nation's President Alvaro Uribe furiously defended his government on Wednesday over suspected ties with illegal paramilitaries and clandestine wiretapping of foes.
The president's response came after a jailed former top paramilitary commander testified that he met Uribe's vice president and his defense minister in the 1990s, and police admitted agents bugged officials, politicians and journalists.
Clearly irate, the Colombian leader denied his government had any knowledge of the wiretapping operation.
"No one can say the president has ordered any one to be recorded, I will not accept that," Uribe said, angry over a comparison to the famous U.S. "Watergate" wiretapping scandal, which pushed President Richard Nixon to resign in 1974.
"I have every confidence in this office, in the honesty of the vice president of the Republic and my companions who make up the national government," Uribe told local Caracol radio.
The news broke at a sensitive time for Uribe as he seeks to persuade U.S. Democrats in Congress to approve a free trade deal and renew a multi-million dollar military aid package for Colombia to help counter a left-wing insurgency.
Aided by U.S. financing, Uribe has reduced guerrilla violence and disarmed 31,000 paramilitaries.
But Uribe is under fire since 13 members of Colombia's Congress and some former politicians have been arrested on charges they colluded with the paramilitary warlords before the peace deal, which meant the arrest of the paramilitary commanders, when the militias brutally controlled large areas of Colombia.
Rights groups believe the warlords have kept criminal and drug-trafficking rings alive.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/05/16/Colombia.Watergate.reut/index.html?section=cnn_latest
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BOGOTA, Colombia (*******) -- Colombia's "Watergate?" The South American nation's President Alvaro Uribe furiously defended his government on Wednesday over suspected ties with illegal paramilitaries and clandestine wiretapping of foes.
The president's response came after a jailed former top paramilitary commander testified that he met Uribe's vice president and his defense minister in the 1990s, and police admitted agents bugged officials, politicians and journalists.
Clearly irate, the Colombian leader denied his government had any knowledge of the wiretapping operation.
"No one can say the president has ordered any one to be recorded, I will not accept that," Uribe said, angry over a comparison to the famous U.S. "Watergate" wiretapping scandal, which pushed President Richard Nixon to resign in 1974.
"I have every confidence in this office, in the honesty of the vice president of the Republic and my companions who make up the national government," Uribe told local Caracol radio.
The news broke at a sensitive time for Uribe as he seeks to persuade U.S. Democrats in Congress to approve a free trade deal and renew a multi-million dollar military aid package for Colombia to help counter a left-wing insurgency.
Aided by U.S. financing, Uribe has reduced guerrilla violence and disarmed 31,000 paramilitaries.
But Uribe is under fire since 13 members of Colombia's Congress and some former politicians have been arrested on charges they colluded with the paramilitary warlords before the peace deal, which meant the arrest of the paramilitary commanders, when the militias brutally controlled large areas of Colombia.
Rights groups believe the warlords have kept criminal and drug-trafficking rings alive.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/05/16/Colombia.Watergate.reut/index.html?section=cnn_latest