Word: cossio
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...president. It approved by a bill to hold a nationwide referendum on the president's right to a third term. Had lawmakers rejected the measure, Uribe's hopes would have died. Instead, "the Colombian Congress has responded to the popular will of the people," said Interior Minister Fabio Valencia Cossio, who shepherded the bill through the Congress. "It was an act of grandeur." (Read a story about the huge populations displaced inside Colombia...
...from a written system to oral and accusatory trials similar to those in U.S. courts, making it harder for narcos to manipulate the proceedings. Still, many law-enforcement experts vigorously defend extradition as narco-traffickers now try to rig the system in more subtle ways. Last year, Guillermo Valencia Cossio, chief government prosecutor for Medellín and the surrounding Antioquia state - and brother of Colombia's Justice Minister - was indicted for allegedly collaborating with a powerful drug baron. He was charged with conspiring with a drug baron and is under house arrest...