Colombia legal row: State cannot back Plazas Vega in US suit, ex-prosecutor says

Former Colombian justice minister Ángela María Buitrago argues the president lacks constitutional authority to order state support for retired Colonel Plazas Vega in a US lawsuit filed by the daughters of magistrate Urán, who died in the 1985 Palace of Justice retaking. The dispute marks an early political and legal clash over executive intervention in a private legal process, with implications for separation of powers and state accountability.