Four dead and 26 wounded yesterday left the explosion of a car bomb in the Colombian city of Cali, 500 miles southwest of Bogota, in an action by the government attributed to the Marxist guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
"The bomb exploded in the rear area of the Palais de Justice, where are located the offices of judges and other officials of the judicial branch, in the heart of the city, killing four people," said the mayor of Cali , Jorge Ivan Ospina.
The defense minister, Juan Manuel Santos, after visiting the scene of fact, attributed the authorship of the fact the FARC, noting that "we have a high degree of certainty that was the front Manuel Cepeda" that guerrillas.
Meanwhile, President Alvaro Uribe said at two public events that its mandate is eight years and insisted as it has done in recent months that we must let new figures from exercising leadership in the country, dismissing his application for a re-election to the presidency.
"To you should not perpetuate the president but have many leaders. I say this very convencidamente, "Uribe said before the plenary of the Chamber of Commerce in Bogota. However, he reiterated his request that whoever his successor preserves the principles of safety with which it has governed his administration.
However, on August 27 sent a communique in which ensured that "the president said today that Dole will return to Medellin much as former president, without being able to dismantle all
crime ".
And that is for Uribe, department of Antioquia Medellin and its capital are essential if we take into account that is a native of this region. In addition, his leap to national politics gave it to his controversial management as governor between 1995 and 1997.
In Antioquia is concentrated search for Daniel Rendon, alias Mario, regarded by the authorities the biggest drug trafficker in the country and there are those who dare to be classified as the new boss of the drug in the world. Hence, the insistence by Uribe in his early capture.
Following drawing attention is that Uribe has not made a pronouncement to direct the initiative to seal the match in La U, to bring forward a referendum seeking a third term. For Valencia and other partners Uribe, the silence is because they "can not hinder a popular initiative."
