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<h1 class="reader-title">Colombia's Uribe To US Business
Leaders: Help Take Out Maduro <br>
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<div class="reader-estimated-time">Published 5 August 2018</div>
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<p>A video was revealed on Sunday showing former Colombian
president, Alvaro Uribe, telling a group of listeners
that Venezuelan soldiers need to “remove” President
Nicolas Maduro from office.</p>
<p>The recording was released just 24 hours after two air
drones carrying explosives were detonated above
President Maduro and several members of his
administration on Saturday as the head of state
addressed a large crowd at the 81st anniversary of the
Bolivarian National Guard in Caracas. Maduro and other
Venezuelan officials are saying that right-wing factions
in the <a
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Venezuelas-Foreign-Minister-Probe-Into-Attack-Against-Maduro-Points-to-US-Colombia-20180805-0026.html">United
States, Venezuelan and Colombia </a>are behind the
drone bombs.</p>
<p>In the video the former president and current Congress
member says in English: "I have said this in public, I
have said that the Venezuelan soldiers need to remove
that government (of Nicolas Maduro), not to establish a
military government, but to call for a rapid transition,
with democratic and transparent elections.</p>
<p>"When I say that the United States should help promote
that decision, it is in private, for us," Uribe tells
the small group of U.S. business leaders at his home in
the Rio Negro, Antioquia on Saturday, hours before the
failed attack on Venezuela’s head of state.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="es">Soldados de Venezuela en
mora de remover a Maduro y su régimen, y que
haya elecciones transparentes.</p>
<p>Un nuevo Gbno democrático para que frene la
profundización de la crisis humanitaria y evite
el terrorismo y el riesgo de más violencia</p>
— Álvaro Uribe Vélez (@AlvaroUribeVel) <a
href="https://twitter.com/AlvaroUribeVel/status/1026201684471697408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">5
de agosto de 2018</a></blockquote>
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<p>“Venezuelan soldiers need to remove a Maduro and his
regimen and hold transparent elections. A new democratic
gov in order to stop the deepening of the humanitarian
crisis and avoid terrorism and the risk of more
violence.”</p>
<p>Later on Sunday, Uribe repeated what he said at his
home over his Twitter account: “Venezuelan soldiers need
to remove a Maduro and his regimen and hold transparent
elections.” He added in his tweet, “a new democratic gov
in order to stop the deepening of the humanitarian
crisis and avoid terrorism and the risk of more
violence.”</p>
<p>It is not the first time that the right-wing Colombian
politician has sought military intervention to overthrow
Maduro from his presidential post.</p>
<p>In August 2017 during a congressional session Uribe
told his fellow lawmakers: "We think that the Armed
Forces of Venezuela, instead of continuing to
assassinate the people, they should demand that the
'tyrant' step aside. Some say that would be a coup, is
not it?"</p>
<p>Uribe is himself under investigation by Colombia’s
Supreme Court for<a
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Colombia-Uribe-to-Appear-Before-Supreme-Court-in-September-20180731-0007.html">
bribery and witness tampering</a> in a case against
him for allegedly masterminding a violent paramilitary
group in his home department of Antioquia while he
served there a governor between 1995 and 1997.</p>
<p>The former president has politically groomed incoming
president, Ivan Duque, also of the Democratic Center
party. The two have long been opposed to the 2016 peace
accords reached by FARC and outgoing president Manuel
Santos. Duque will be sworn in on Tuesday, August 7.</p>
<p>Colombian media added that the Congress member intends
to hold another private meeting at home with US
lawmakers attending the this week’s inauguration in
Bogota.</p>
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