BOGOTA, 24 Feb. Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010) has filed a criminal complaint Thursday with the Attorney for Colombia against Nobel Peace Argentinean Adolfo Perez Esquivel for alleged defamation. "I have fought with transparency to all criminals and now I have denounced the outrages of Perez Esquivel, Uribe has been reported in your account on Twitter, it has used to harshly criticize the statements of Argentine activist.
Jaime Uribe will be represented by Lombardi, who has admitted that Perez Esquivel may not be arrested despite having a criminal complaint against him. "Colombian law provides that a person who has taken actions that have had an impact in Colombia (in this case through the media) have to come voluntarily," the lawyer explained to the newspaper 'El Tiempo'.
Both have shaped Latin American figures in the last hours an intense debate that had as its setting Uribe account on Twitter and the media following the recent statements on the Nobel peace policy carried out by former Colombian president. Forum 'Making Peace in Colombia, held this week in Buenos Aires, Pérez Esquivel said that Uribe had lacked "commitment to peace" and said that both the former president and his cousin Mario Uribe and former congressman, was sentenced to more seven years in prison, "had links with paramilitary groups." Uribe has responded forcefully to the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980 and accused him of being "terrorist sponsor" of the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
"Our government dismantled the paramilitaries, failed to put in jail for Perez Esquivel," he asserted in one of the many messages sent through Twitter in the last hours. "Pérez Esquivel: for peace and democratic values needs authority accomplices of terrorism not like you," the former president has said.
Pérez Esquivel, however, assured no knowledge of the application before the Office in Colombia, but has played down the accusations. "No idea, I have no official information so far I can not say anything," he said in remarks to the station's W. However, he warned that he is willing to supply the Colombian justice evidence that paramilitary groups had been trained at a farm in Santiago Uribe, brother of former president. 
Jaime Uribe will be represented by Lombardi, who has admitted that Perez Esquivel may not be arrested despite having a criminal complaint against him. "Colombian law provides that a person who has taken actions that have had an impact in Colombia (in this case through the media) have to come voluntarily," the lawyer explained to the newspaper 'El Tiempo'.
Both have shaped Latin American figures in the last hours an intense debate that had as its setting Uribe account on Twitter and the media following the recent statements on the Nobel peace policy carried out by former Colombian president. Forum 'Making Peace in Colombia, held this week in Buenos Aires, Pérez Esquivel said that Uribe had lacked "commitment to peace" and said that both the former president and his cousin Mario Uribe and former congressman, was sentenced to more seven years in prison, "had links with paramilitary groups." Uribe has responded forcefully to the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980 and accused him of being "terrorist sponsor" of the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
"Our government dismantled the paramilitaries, failed to put in jail for Perez Esquivel," he asserted in one of the many messages sent through Twitter in the last hours. "Pérez Esquivel: for peace and democratic values needs authority accomplices of terrorism not like you," the former president has said.
Pérez Esquivel, however, assured no knowledge of the application before the Office in Colombia, but has played down the accusations. "No idea, I have no official information so far I can not say anything," he said in remarks to the station's W. However, he warned that he is willing to supply the Colombian justice evidence that paramilitary groups had been trained at a farm in Santiago Uribe, brother of former president.
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