NPR's David Welna profiles the man who single-handedly could bring down the president of Colombia and at the same time restore public confidence in public officials. Alfonso Valdivieso (vahl-dee-vee-AY-so) is Colombia's chief prosecutor; despite numerous death threats and at least one assassination attempt, he has doggedly pursued charges that President Ernesto Samper (sam-PAIR) took millions of dollars from drug traffickers. Valdivieso has already put Samper's defense minister in jail, along with several leading drug traffickers.
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