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Right-wing Trump ally Abelardo de la Espriella has clinched a narrow victory in Sunday\u2019s runoff presidential election in Colombia, defeating leftist Senator Iv\u00e1n Cepeda, an ally of current President Gustavo Petro. De la Espriella ran a fearmongering, \u201ctough-on-crime\u201d campaign, promising to build mega-prisons inspired by El Salvador\u2019s authoritarian President Nayib Bukele, to bomb \u201cnarcoterrorist camps\u201d and to abandon Petro\u2019s peace efforts. His reported victory is also a win for U.S. President Donald Trump, whose administration is waging an intensifying \u201cwar on drugs\u201d across Latin America, targeting left-wing leaders like Petro with false allegations and threats of military intervention.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDe la Espriella clearly represents a criminal approach to politics: lying, propaganda, coordination and collusion with criminal narcotrafficking, restriction of rights, and money laundering,\u201d says longtime Colombian activist Manuel Rozental. With his victory, says Rozental, \u201cWe expect to have military operations and a U.S. intervention within the country. We expect to have human rights abuses. We expect to have militarization. And it\u2019s all for the extraction of resources and the link of drug trafficking to the U.S. government, U.S. interests and global mafia.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Right-wing Trump ally Abelardo de la Espriella has clinched a narrow victory in Sunday\u2019s runoff presidential election in Colombia, defeating leftist Senator Iv\u00e1n Cepeda, an ally of current President Gustavo Petro. De la Espriella ran a fearmongering, \u201ctough-on-crime\u201d campaign, promising to build mega-prisons inspired by El Salvador\u2019s authoritarian President Nayib Bukele, to bomb \u201cnarcoterrorist camps\u201d and to abandon Petro\u2019s peace efforts. 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