Gustavo Petro

...Uribe says the agreement will help rid Colombia of drugs gangs and left-wing rebel groups. But leading opposition senator Gustavo Petro, of the left-wing PDA party, said the deal amounted to a virtual US occupation of Colombia. The...

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...has been criticized locally for granting U.S. troops immunity from criminal prosecution in Colombia. Opposition Senator Gustavo Petro, also a candidate for president, blasted the pact as invalid for not having been approved by...

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Gustavo Petro Urrego (born April 19, 1960 in Cienaga de Oro, Cordoba Department) is a Colombian leftist politician member of the Alternative Democratic Pole, currently serving as Senator in the Congress of Colombia. His family is of Italian...

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...of illegal eavesdropping. Munoz's immediate predecessor, Maria del Pilar Hurtado, resigned after opposition Sen. Gustavo Petro obtained a letter signed by one of her deputies that ordered DAS agents spy on him. Petro is one of the...

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...a statement she read to reporters. She did not take questions. Hurtado said neither she nor Uribe ordered the surveillance of Sen. Gustavo Petro, a member of the leftist Polo Democratico party and a key figure in efforts to uncover ties...

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On Thursday night, President Uribe told reporters he would act swiftly to dispel what he called slanderous attacks by Sen. Gustavo Petro, a leader in the left-of-center Democratic Pole party who has helped unearth information that has led to...

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Basing his accusations on government documents and depositions by former paramilitary members and military officers, Sen. Gustavo Petro said the militiamen met at Uribe's Guacharacas farm as well as ranches owned by his brother, Santiago...

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...while President Alvaro Uribe was governor of the region. In a congressional debate, Sen. Gustavo Petro showed dozens of documents that he said described two farms owned by the Uribe family that were used as meeting points for...

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...dominance of drug trafficking, a top opposition leader said. In an 80-minute Senate speech that electrified the nation, Sen. Gustavo Petro said paramilitary assassins have killed 3,005 people since Uribe began negotiating their so-called...

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