nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/c4f74758c8ccf02a DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250808s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/c4f74758c8ccf02a doi eng 342 23 Boesten, Jan Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-2117-1004 Colombia’s Ketchup-Bottle-Case - What Former President Álvaro Uribe’s Conviction for Witness Tampering Means for Other Cases Boesten, Jan Verfassungsblog 2025-08-08 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier It may well be Colombian literary culture shining through when the presiding judge of the case against former President Álvaro Uribe cited the French aristocrat: “As Montesquieu rightly said, the law must be like death, which spares no one”. The verdict of 12 years in prison has been 14 years in the making. The most important implication of this case is neither the verdict itself, nor the length of the sentence – it is its nature as a “Ketchup-Bottle-Case”: the opening for more than 100 cases in the system that include crimes against humanity carrying life-in-prison sentences. CC BY-SA 4.0 Colombia Corruption Uribe Uribe Vélez Álvaro | 1952– | Politiker; Jurist (DE-588)141048603 gnd Uribe Vélez Álvaro | 1952– | Politiker; Jurist Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/colombia-uribe-verdict/ raw object