The ex-president Alvaro Uribe, who these days is on political rampages throughout the country promoting the candidates of the Democratic Center in the face of the upcoming electoral contests for Congress and the Presidency, defended this Wednesday his government work in security matters to the commune 13 of Medellin. While his work was highlighted by some sectors of the community, others booed him as he passed through the sector.
“When our government arrived, the ‘recocha’ of criminals dominated this entire commune, and from here they planned all the criminal actions against the city. The victims were the citizens of this commune and the citizens of Medellín. Today what we have seen is joy, tourism, art. How beautiful to see Medellin from here. Before, this was a place of violence and blood, today it is a place of joy,” said Uribe.
In videos shared by militants from the Democratic Center, some people appear defending the president’s work in the commune. “Commune 13 was a sea of pain, a river of blood. The operation arrived, its mandate arrived, the color of the commune,” said a young man. “Before the operation orion We couldn’t leave our houses, we were kidnapped,” said another man who was at the political events with the former president.
Uribe himself pointed out that many politicians who go to the sector today, “thanks to what was done in that government, are simply dedicated to defaming that operation that we carried out with all transparency and with all the patriotism.”
The takeover of Commune 13 was one of the most controversial operations of the Uribe government. In fact, several generals of his Government are prosecuted for the so-called Operation Orion, in which, according to several sentences, the paramilitary groups joined members of the Public Forceto dislodge the militias from the The n of that sector of Medellin in October 2002.
In social networks, on the other hand, it has been shown that, parallel to the political acts, groups of residents rejected the visit of the former president. Videos are circulating on Twitter in which members of the community can be heard asking him to leave and questioning him about the disappearances in the operation, while Uribe moved along the escalators of the commune under heavy escort.
The former president had already been booed in previous days in a visit to Santa Marta, and in another in Caldas.
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