Outgoing far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro threatened "civil war" if Trump-backed President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella allowed to take power.
Outgoing Colombian President Gustavo Petro claims the country’s defeated leftist presidential candidate actually won the election , warning of potential violence as Trump-backed President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella prepares for inauguration. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Outgoing far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro has threatened “civil war” if Trump-backed President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella is allowed to take power. DETAIL: Abelardo De la Espriella, a conservative lawyer, decisively won the Colombian presidential run-off election against his leftist rival, Iván Cepeda, back in June. In response to Espriella’s victory, Petro, the country’s first leftist president, accused “moneyed Israeli” interests of…Open
Colombia’s president-elect suspended the ongoing transition process with President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday, accusing the outgoing leader of plotting a coup to stay in power. Petro denied the legitimacy of President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella’s victory in the June 21 runoff election on Monday, claiming that Espriella’s defeat of the left-wing candidate, Senator Iván Cepeda, was fraudulent, according to the Associated Press (AP). Right-wing candidate Espriella, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump, defeated Cepeda by a narrow margin of one percent. Petro was the first leftist candidate elected president in Colombia’s history. (RELATED: ‘I Am The Tiger’: Trump-Backed US Citizen Set To Take Power In Colombia, Wants…Open
President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella says he will crush the narcos and the bureaucracy. The post The Right Returns to Colombia appeared first on The American Conservative .
Latin America The Right Returns to Colombia President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella says he will crush the narcos and the bureaucracy. Clad in the Colombian soccer uniform and accompanied by the rattle of drums and the flash of stadium pyrotechnics, President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella approached the podium in Barranquilla last week Sunday and roared, “Colombia, your tiger is here!” De la Espriella, a right-wing populist lawyer who calls himself “the tiger,” clinched a narrow victory in the second round of the country’s presidential election over left-wing Senator Iván Cepeda. De la Espriella is a return to the right…Open
Conservative outsider Abelardo de la Espriella, a millionaire political neophyte, will be Colombia’s next president after electoral authorities on Wednesday declared him the winner of Sunday’s runoff election. The businessman and lawyer, whose ventures include a clothing line, wine and rum brands, and a restaurant, earned U.S. President Donald Trump’s endorsement despite never having run for office. He defeated progressive lawmaker Iván Cepeda by 1 percentage point, or more than 251,000 votes. Read More: https://thehill.com/policy/international/colombia-presidential-election-donald-trump-progressive-concedes/ #colombia #trump #elections #latinamerica
Abelardo De La Espriella, a Colombian presidential candidate backed by President Donald J. Trump, has won the country's presidential election.
Colombia has elected the Trump-backed candidate, Abelardo De La Espriella, to serve as President , continuing Latin America’s recent rightward political shift. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Abelardo De La Espriella, a Colombian presidential candidate backed by President Donald J. Trump, has won the country’s presidential election. DETAIL: De La Espriella secured 49.66 percent of the vote in the run-off election against Senator Ivan Cepeda, who secured 48.70 percent of the vote. Whereas Cepeda campaigned to continue the far-left policies of outgoing far-left President Gustavo Petro, the first left-wing president of Colombia in recent history, De La Espriella vowed to crack down on terrorists and criminal organizations while cutting…Open
State of the Union: The close-fought election sustains Latin America’s rightward trend. The post Right-Wing Candidate de la Espriella Wins Colombian Presidential Election appeared first on The American Conservative .
Abelardo de la Espriella was elected president of Colombia Sunday, securing a victory for the right against the left-wing senator Ivan Cepeda. The runoff election was a relatively close race: De la Espriella secured 49.7 percent of the vote, with Cepeda receiving 48.7 percent. A social media–savvy populist, De la Espriella ran a law-and-order campaign that promised a harsh crackdown on organized crime, including strengthening the military in response to the endemic guerilla violence in the countryside. He pledged to sharply cut government spending and align Colombia more closely with the United States, and he received the endorsement of President Donald Trump. His opponent, Cepeda, campaigned on continuing current President Gustavo…Open
The political realignment now unfolding across Latin America demonstrates that voters ultimately judge governments by outcomes rather than intentions. For much of the twentieth century, Latin America served as one of the principal battlegrounds in the global struggle between communism and free market democracy. The Soviet Union and its allies invested enormous resources into cultivating […] The post The Great Political Reversal: Why Latin American Voters Are Choosing Conservatives Again appeared first on StoneZone .
The political realignment now unfolding across Latin America demonstrates that voters ultimately judge governments by outcomes rather than intentions. For much of the twentieth century, Latin America served as one of the principal battlegrounds in the global struggle between communism and free market democracy. The Soviet Union and its allies invested enormous resources into cultivating revolutionary movements, socialist parties, and Marxist insurgencies throughout the Western Hemisphere. From Cuba to Nicaragua and beyond, the Left promised a future built upon economic equality, state control, and collectivist ideology. For a time, many believed those movements represented the inevitable direction of history. Political leaders,…Open
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, the country’s first left-wing president elected in 2022 on a campaign promising “Total Peace” that treated armed groups as legitimate political actors, has once again ignited major international controversy. On June 7, 2026, Petro tweeted the Nazi slogan “Heil Hitler” in direct response to an opinion column published in the respected newspaper El Espectador. […] The post Petro Tweets “Heil Hitler” as Colombia Turns to El Tigre for Law and Order appeared first on StoneZone .
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, the country’s first left-wing president elected in 2022 on a campaign promising “Total Peace” that treated armed groups as legitimate political actors, has once again ignited major international controversy. On June 7, 2026, Petro tweeted the Nazi slogan “Heil Hitler” in direct response to an opinion column published in the respected newspaper El Espectador. Co-authored with Google’s Gemini AI (which generated the main body of the text), the column by Felipe Zuleta Lleras made the straightforward case that Colombia desperately needs “order, authority, and economic freedom” instead of more empty political rhetoric and ideological experimentation. Petro’s blunt two-word reply,…Open
