Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Álvaro Uribe Vélez (; born 4 July 1952) is a Colombian politician who served as the 39th President of Colombia from 2002 to 2010. In August 2010 he was appointed Vice-chairman of the UN panel investigating the Gaza flotilla raid.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Argentine police defused a bomb discovered in the ceiling of a Buenos Aires theater Tuesday, and authorities said it was timed to explode during an appearance there by former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.
The bomb was hidden inside the power supply for a ceiling light in the second floor of the Gran Rex theater. It was attached to a cellphone with an alarm set for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, just when Uribe would have joined a post-speech cocktail with business executives and other important guests, investigative Judge Norberto Oyarbide said."It is a simple device but it could have caused deaths," Oyarbide said. "The damage to Argentina would have been huge."He credited the theater's maintenance and security staff for spotting the device.The judge spoke after personally surveying the scene where federal police bomb experts were searching for clues inside the historic theater on Corrientes Avenue in the heart of the Argentine capital.Uribe, who served as Colombia's president in 2002-10, had...BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Alvaro Uribe defended his brother Friday against allegations of having led a right-wing death squad from the family ranch...
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Police say they have arrested a man accused of posting a Facebook threat to the son of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe .Judicial police commander Luis Ramirez says ...
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BOGOTA (AP) — President Alvaro Uribe accused his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez , on Monday of meddling in Colombia's presidential election campaign by trying t...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A day after saying he hopes to eventually cool tensions with Colombia, President Hugo Chavez charged that his neighbor recently allowed a U...
Last year's Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla was "excessive and unreasonable" according to a U.N. panel that also blamed Turkey and flotilla organizers for cont...
Turkey is preparing to challenge Israel's blockade on Gaza at the International Court of Justice, the foreign minister said Saturday, ratcheting up tensions between ...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 8 are dead, 72 trapped in Colombian coal mine explosion, President Alvaro Uribe says.
A bomb targeting a hardline former interior minister killed two of his bodyguards and injured at least 39 people in Bogota's uptown commercial district Tuesday in th...
A bomb targeting a hardline former Colombian interior minister killed two of his bodyguards and injured at least 31 others in the heart of Bogota's uptown commercial...
A bomb targeting a hardline former interior minister killed two of his bodyguards and injured at least 39 people in Bogota's uptown commercial district Tuesday in th...
Argentine police have found a bomb planted in the ceiling of a Buenos Aires theater where former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe is scheduled to speak on Wednesday....
Colombian investigators on Wednesday were seeking a man between 17 and 20 years old they say could be the bomber who killed two bodyguards of a conservative former i...
A French journalist freed by leftist rebels Wednesday said he had no complaints about his captivity other than its 33-day duration and lamented that Colombia's war i...
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