1087. The first four digits of the prisoner number of Alvaro Uribe, former President of Colombia, allowed a lottery player in the province of del Valle to win 3.5 billion pesos on August 10. Since August 4, 2020, the leader of the Democratic Center has been under house arrest by order of the Supreme Court of Justice. His supporters cry out for the relentlessness of Castro-Chavista justice against a "hero of the nation" who fought relentlessly against the Farc guerrillas. His detractors welcome a man they consider an ally of the terrible paramilitaries, who have killed hundreds of thousands of people in the country, to finally be prosecuted.
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Yet his indictment is not directly linked to his alleged links with the paramilitaries. It is based on a series of hearings and investigations carried out by the Colombian justice system and which began with the questioning of the leftist deputy Ivan Cepeda by Alvaro Uribe himself. In 2012, this member of
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