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According to one of the cables released by WikiLeaks, on November 16, Defense Minister Mr. Jorge Alberto Uribe requested a meeting with the Ambassador to explain an article in El Nuevo Herald that claimed he had made a conjugal visit to a woman imprisoned in Medellin.

The woman, Dora Adriana Alzate Restrepo, was arrested and sentenced to nine years in jail when authorities found heroin in her suitcase bound for Miami in the Medellin airport in February 2003.

Uribe told the Ambassador that he had had a ten-year, personal relationship with Alzate, whom he met while he was president of Delima Marsh and she worked for an associate company.

On the day of her arrest, Uribe and Alzate were traveling separately to the U. S. from Medellin and were chatting in the airport.

Alzate was detained by security and Uribe boarded the plane unaware of her fate.

After her arrest, Uribe said that he visited her in prison once and spoke with her on the telephone once.