JUSTTHENEWS (Nicholas Ballasy) - Colombians head to polls Sunday for presidential election
This current election is taking place about ten years after Colombia signed a historic peace deal with the FARC rebel group.
STONEZONE (Roger Stone) - Colombia’s Populist Moment: Why ‘El Tigre’ Is the Candidate Feared by the Establishment
As Colombians prepare to cast their votes on Sunday, one figure towers over the campaign trail like a force of nature: Abelardo de la Espriella, the combative lawyer and businessman known throughout his nation as “El Tigre.” Surging in the final polls to within striking distance of the leftist frontrunner, the outsider candidate is drawing massive crowds […] The post Colombia’s Populist Moment: Why ‘El Tigre’ Is the Candidate Feared by the Establishment appeared first on StoneZone .
As Colombians prepare to cast their votes on Sunday, one figure towers over the campaign trail like a force of nature: Abelardo de la Espriella, the combative lawyer and businessman known throughout his nation as “El Tigre.” Surging in the final polls to within striking distance of the leftist frontrunner, the outsider candidate is drawing massive crowds that roar his slogan “¡Firme por la patria!” while men in tiger costumes chant and fireworks explode behind bulletproof glass. He is the candidate the left and the entrenched conservatives fear most because he refuses to play by the rules of the political establishment. A self-funded movement leader who skipped the old party primaries, de la Espriella offers something rarer in…Open
NYTIMES (Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Federico Rios) - Ahead of Colombia’s Elections, Violence on the Campaign Trail Rattles Politicians
Politicians in Colombia have increasingly become targets of violence. A rise in kidnappings, death threats and assassinations has shaken the country ahead of the vote.
NPR (John Otis) - From guns to ballots: FARC's campaign for votes in Colombia
Ten years after Colombia's peace deal, former FARC commander on the election campaign trail is discovering that winning ballots can be tougher than waging war.
SUBSTACK (The Grayzone) - Iran war described as 'biggest opportunity' at US oil lobby’s DC summit
But an attendee told The Grayzone that oil industry heavyweights were less excited about Trump’s Venezuela policy, complaining in private about the President's push to reopen the country.
By Max Blumenthal When the American Petroleum Institute (API) gathered oil industry leaders and lobbyists for a “State of American Energy” summit on January 16, 2026, the geopolitical landscape seemed to be shifting dramatically in their favor. However, an attendee of the resource extraction cartel’s most important annual lobbying conference told The Grayzone that participants privately grumbled about President Donald Trump’s heavy-handed attempts to steer their agenda, particularly in Venezuela, where he has demanded they immediately restart operations. Two weeks before the API summit, the US military kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a violent raid, enabling the Trump administration to commandeer the country’s…Open
THENATIONALPULSE (William Upton) - Colombia’s Anti-Trump Leftist President Claims He Survived an Assassination Attempt on Monday.
PULSE POINTSWHAT HAPPENED: Colombia’s left-wing President Gustavo Petro claimed on Tuesday that he survived an attempted assassination late Monday night as he traveled by helicopter.WHO WAS INVOLVED: Gustavo Petro, ex-FARC leader Ivan Mordisco, and Colombian drug cartels.WHEN & WHERE: The attempted assassination was claimed by Petro on Tuesday, with it allegedly taking place the day […] The post Colombia’s Anti-Trump Leftist President Claims He Survived an Assassination Attempt on Monday. appeared first on The National Pulse .
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Colombia’s left-wing President Gustavo Petro claimed on Tuesday that he survived an attempted assassination late Monday night as he traveled by helicopter. WHO WAS INVOLVED: Gustavo Petro, ex-FARC leader Ivan Mordisco, and Colombian drug cartels . WHEN & WHERE: The attempted assassination was claimed by Petro on Tuesday, with it allegedly taking place the day before, on Monday, February 9, 2026. KEY QUOTE: “We headed out to open sea for four hours and I arrived somewhere we weren’t supposed to go, escaping from being killed.” — Colombian President Gustavo Petro. IMPACT: In recent weeks, Colombia has seen an explosion of political violence—something not entirely unusual in the country during an…Open