De La Espriella Tells Trump They Will "Combat Transnational Crime and the Radical Left"
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De la Espriella tells Trump they will "combat transnational crime and the radical left"
The far-right frontrunner in Colombia’s election race, Abelardo de la Espriella, told US President Donald Trump he will help “fight the radical left that seeks to destroy the values our Nations are built upon.” De la Espriella responded to Trump’s third endorsement on his Truth Social website. In the endorsement, the US president claimed that De la Espriella “is running against a Radical Left Marxist in the Runoff on Sunday.” Because of his trem…
Representative Chuy García urged the Trump Administration to respect Colombia's sovereignty, investigate the serious accusations against De La Espriella and let the people of Colombia freely choose their future.
In the document, congressmen called the participation of high-ranking US officials in the Colombian electoral debate “alarming” by warning about possible interference in voters’ decision
The document presents the praise of De la Espriella’s paramilitary leaders, their opposition to the historic 2016 Peace Agreement, and the accusations against them for having appropriated funds to “bring to key judicial actors” Democratic Congressmen denounce Trump’s “interferences” in the Colombian elections a week after the second round that the Trump Administration will stop interfering in the Colombian presidential elections, which this Sund…
A group of Democratic Congressmen this Wednesday sent a letter to US Secretaries of State, Marco Rubio, and Commerce, Scott Bessent, as well as to U.S. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, to express his “deep concern at the blatant interference of U.S. top officials, including President [Donald] Trump, in Colombia’s presidential elections.” A couple of weeks ago, Trump expressed his “total support” to Abelardo de la Espriella, the ultra-right …
Latin American Abstract, June 18, 2026. President Donald Trump has given his “total and complete support” to the right-wing hard-line candidate for the presidency of Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, for the second round of the presidential election next Sunday. Rather than expressing his personal preference, the U.S. Executive also noted [...] La entrada Colombia. The danger of associating with Trump was first published in Latin American Summ…
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