In a message on his X account, President Gustavo Petro referred this Tuesday to the decision of the Superior Court of Bogotá to overturn the first instance sentence against former President Álvaro Uribe for the crimes of bribery and procedural fraud.
(Read: Court overturns conviction against former President Uribe and revokes sentence for procedural fraud).
"The Superior Court of Bogotá repeats history, contradicts the Supreme Court of Justice, and affirms that the interception that a Supreme Court judge judicially made of a criminal, where Uribe's voice appears talking about bribes, is intimacy. This is how the history of paramilitary governance in Colombia is covered up, that is, the history of the politicians who came to power allied with drug trafficking and who unleashed genocide in Colombia", Petro commented in his message.
He added that now Donald Trump,"allied with these politicians and with Uribe", will seek to sanction"the president who denounced in his life, the alliances between the Colombian political power and paramilitary drug trafficking in Colombia, and he does so with the help of those who helped paramilitarism in the country".
The Bogotá High Court repeats history, contradicts the Supreme Court, and affirms that the interception that a Supreme Court judge judicially made of a criminal, where Uribe's voice appears talking about bribes, is privacy.
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) October 21, 2025
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He also said that the accusations commission is seeking a coup d'état, which is why he called on the people to begin collecting signatures for a constituent assembly.
"The time for definitions has come and it is not Trump who defines, it is the people. I will wait for you in the Plaza de Bolívar in Bogotá this Friday to begin the collection of signatures for the constituent power", he wrote in his message.
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The Superior Court of Bogotá acquitted former President Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010) on Tuesday in the second instance of the crime of procedural fraud, as it had already done for bribery in criminal proceedings, by ruling on his defense's appeal of a 12-year prison sentence imposed on him last August.
"In conclusion, the lack of direct inferential evidence of falsehood and suitable artifice prevents the criminal offense of procedural fraud from being established. Therefore, the sentence must be revoked," said Judge Manuel Antonio Merchán when reading today the ruling that overturns the conviction imposed on Uribe by Judge Sandra Heredia, of the 44th Criminal Circuit Court of Bogotá.
