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Ex-Colombia president Samper making comeback

By Joshua Goodman
Published September 11, 2014 7:58pm ET
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Ex-Colombia president Samper making comeback
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A former Colombian president stripped of his U.S. visa two decades ago for taking payments from the nation’s biggest drug cartel is making a political comeback as a promoter of South American unity. Ernesto Samper was sworn in Thursday at a ceremony in Venezuela’s capital of Caracas as secretary general of […]

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A former Colombian president stripped of his U.S. visa two decades ago for taking payments from the nation’s biggest drug cartel is making a political comeback as a promoter of South American unity.

Ernesto Samper was sworn in Thursday at a ceremony in Venezuela’s capital of Caracas as secretary general of the 12-member Union of South American Nations.

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