And although some of the president's supporters have been found to have had links with the paramilitaries, there is no evidence that Mr Uribe himself knew of them.José Obdulio Gaviria, an adviser to Mr Uribe, says Colombia's government will have to keep repeating its message over and over until it gets through, just as if it were dealing with "slow students".
It's necessary until it gets through their skulls that coaches know a little more than the players do.
If the laptop is connected to a phone line, it begins dialing the tracking agency's toll-free number every few minutes -- silently and invisibly, of course, with various outside-line prefixes (9 and 8, for example) until it gets through.
The bystander intervenes by stepping in and repeating the same statement over and over again to the aggressor until it gets through to them.
"Until I get through," he says.Last week the Senate tried, and failed, to deal with the problem of illegal immigration.
Until now, you either sat through a video until it got too boring, waited for the interesting part or fast-forwarded hoping to spy something worth seeing.
And again, until I got through it.
"If you had to take a crap or something in the bathroom, we had to stop the session until you got through," he says in a taped interview from 2015.
"But I heard -- not saw, heard -- so much about the renaissance, that Newark is on its way back up, that I said I can kind of suffer through whatever until it gets better.
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