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Colombia's Far-Right, Trump-Backed Candidate Wins Presidential Election
The Guardian·Thursday, 25 June 2026
Far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella has won Colombia's presidential runoff by a razor-thin margin. Leftwing candidate Iván Cepeda conceded after preliminary results pointed to a De la Espriella victory since Sunday night. De la Espriella is described as a Trump-admiring millionaire lawyer.
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A major Latin American country shifting to the far right has implications for regional trade, drug policy, and US-Latin America relations — all of which ripple into global geopolitics that India watches closely.
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