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...amount of criticism by the opposition (including the Liberal Party candidate Horacio Serpa), policy setbacks or even corruption scandals that have tainted his administration appear to have seriously damaged Uribe's mass appeal. "Nothing seems to affect his popularity, neither the good nor the bad," said political analyst Fernando Cepeda. "What determines his popularity is the overriding perception that he is a man who kills himself working and he's doing the best...
...from the Cali cartel. But in private, the retired general signaled to key members of the ruling Liberal Party that relations with the U.S. will continue to be strained if the party's presidential nominee for the May 1998 elections is the current front runner, former Interior Minister HORACIO SERPA URIBE, one of the men who took responsibility for letting the drug money into Samper's campaign. "We desperately look forward," McCaffrey told reporters, "to working with a man or woman who is talented and a person of high integrity." Privately, McCaffrey has made it clear that Serpa...
...belief in Botero's innocence, Botero came to suspect that the President was planning to make him the scapegoat in the scandal. He reached the breaking point on Jan. 21, when Samper failed to appear for a scheduled dinner at the barracks, sending in his place Interior Minister Horacio Serpa. Botero became so angry that he threw a glass across the room. "I told Serpa," he said later, "that the situation was leading the country to chaos, that the truth had to come out." After the visit, Botero's lawyer advised the Prosecutor General's office that his client wanted...
...enjoy being involved in politics, because the issues that you deal with change from day-to-day, week-to-week," said Dean Serpa, deputy regional political director for the Northeast region of the Pete Wilson for President campaign. "There are no prerequisites for success in politics. You need no educational back-ground, you need no wealth, it is just hard work that makes you successful...
...Everyone I spoke to supported the commissioner," says Noel A. Serpa, a member of the Citizen Advisory Board--a committee which makes recommendations about policies and procedures of the department. "He is trying to bring the best individuals without regard for their political connections...