Re:The Nobel Peace Prize 2016: Juan Manuel Santos
by davidpelaez on Friday October 07, 2016 @10:57AM
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Thank your for a reasonable comment! There is indeed a lot of ignorance from the outside. There's a logic to many points and theories but definitely people should be more informed even here in HN.
No, they weren't in "his knees", that's a lie perpetuated by Uribe himself.
Being elected doesn't give them any power over any territories, they will be just part of the Congress, so they will have power to vote there, but not over "specific" territories.
By the way today an scandal is up in Colombia where one of Uribes friends declared all the tactics to emotionally manipulate the people to vote against the treaty with lies and overly exaggerated claims (https://www.google.com.co/amp/amp.noticias.caracoltv.com/acu...)