Is he a doughty reformer, delivering a safer Colombia while allowing sunlight at last to illuminate the dark corners of the country's bitter three-way war in the 1980s and 1990s between the state and armed groups of the left and right? Or was he secretly in collusion with the right-wing paramilitaries all along? The controversy about President Alvaro Uribe took a new turn on April 17th when Gustavo Petro, an opposition senator, spent two hours putting new allegations in front of the Senate. But for the present, the quarrel seems bound to swirl inconclusively on.
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