Trump-Backed "El Tigre" Takes Power In Colombia As Right-Wing Wave...

El Tigre, Ceuta, and the Illusion of a Unified Right

On 7 August, Abelardo de la Espriella — a Colombian-Italian-American lawyer nicknamed “El Tigre,” whom Donald Trump had called a future “great president” months before a single vote was cast — was sworn in as Colombia’s president not in Bogotá’s Plaza de Bolívar, where every inauguration since 1958 has been held, but behind an 11,000-troop […] The post El Tigre, Ceuta, and the Illusion of a Unified Right appeared first on Modern Diplomacy.

Trump-Backed "El Tigre" Takes Power In Colombia As Right-Wing Wave...

Colombia entered a new political chapter as Trump-backed President Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn into office Friday, pledging to reverse much of former President Gustavo Petro's nation-killing socialist agenda and to restore law and order, a free market economy, and relations with the United States. Known by his nickname, "El Tigre" (the Tiger), De la Espriella's inauguration marks one of the most significant political shifts in Latin Ameri…

“Narco-Socialist Rats Better Start Running”: Colombia’s Trump-Backed “El Tigre” Launches Major Offensive Against FARC

“Narco-Socialist Rats Better Start Running”: Colombia’s Trump-Backed “El Tigre” Launches Major Offensive Against FARC Trump-backed Colombian President Abelardo De La Espriella wasted no time putting his law-and-order agenda into high gear, launching a major military offensive against Marxist FARC dissidents days after taking office on Friday.  “The new government’s kinetic approach is already underway in southwestern Colombia,”...