BOGOTA: Colombian ex-president Alvaro Uribe will learn his fate Monday in a witness tampering case that saw him become the South American country’s first-ever former head of state to be put on trial. The 73-year-old, who was president from 2002 to 2010, is charged with “bribery of witnesses” in a separate investigation against him, and risks a 12-year prison sentence in the highly politicized case.

L’ancien chef d’Etat, adulé par la droite dure, a été au pouvoir entre 2002 et 2010. Il est soupçonné d’avoir offert de l’argent à deux ex-paramilitaires, qui évoquaient son rôle…

BOGOTA: Colombian ex-president Alvaro Uribe will learn his fate Monday in a witness tampering case that saw him become the South American country’s first-ever former head of state…