The US has denied a visa to a prominent Colombian television journalist to attend a fellowship at Harvard University. The journalist, Hollman Morris, has been highly critical of outgoing Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, a key US ally. Morris has helped document Uribe’s ties to right-wing paramilitary groups responsible for scores of human rights abuses in Colombia. Uribe has called Morris “an accomplice of terrorism” for covering the rebel group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. The Colombian government has also tapped Morris’s phone and subjected him to potential prosecution. Morris was one of twelve journalists selected for Harvard’s Nieman Foundation program beginning later this year. But US officials say he’s been deemed permanently ineligible for a visa under the “terrorist activities” section of the USA PATRIOT Act.