Seventy-three-year-old Alvaro Uribe, who was president from 2002 to 2010 and is now South America's first-ever former head of state convicted of a crime, was found guilty of trying to persuade witnesses to lie for him after being accused of having had ties to paramilitary groups responsible for human rights violations.

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…