THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Joseph Addington) - The Right Returns to Colombia
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