Trump Ally Vowing Death to Cartels Closes in on Colombia Presidency
De la Espriella won a record 10.4 million first-round votes as markets rose and his hardline security message resonated with voters.
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Colombia in the Eye of “El Tigre”
On Monday, June 8, I received terrible news from my friend Rosa, a youth activist and the founder of three community gardens in the impoverished neighborhoods of northern Bogotá. Thugs had destroyed one of their spaces, the Pollinators’ Garden in Suba.Emboldened angry men with machetes, shovels, and axes chopped down tomate de árbol and avocado trees, multiplying banana fronds and fruit, lavender, rue, kale, oregano, basil, and many other vegeta…
An ex-drug boss supports him, Trump praises him, scandals don't deter his voters. In Colombia, a far-right lawyer picks up power.
Trump Ally Vowing Death to Cartels Closes in on Colombia Presidency
In a victory speech delivered from behind a bulletproof screen, on a barge in a Caribbean river estuary, Abelardo de la Espriella vowed to hunt down Colombia’s worst criminals.

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