The right-wing Abelardo de la Espriella, from the Defenders of the Homeland movement, won this Sunday in the second round of the presidential elections in Colombia by obtaining 12,921,702 votes (49.65%), a narrow advantage of 248,310 ballots (0.95 percentage points) over the leftist Iván Cepeda, according to 99.65% of theContinue Reading
Lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella, presidential candidate of the right-wing Defensores de la Patria movement, voted this Sunday in the Caribbean city of Barranquilla confident that he will win the Presidency of Colombia to succeed Gustavo Petro. “We have to defeat tyranny (…) We are going to defeat the regimeContinue Reading
Cepeda He also acknowledged on Monday that after verifications carried out by his campaign, They have not found evidence of irregularities to question the result of the first round. The candidate had joined President Gustavo Petro on Sunday night, who rejected the data released by the National Registry, the entityContinue Reading
The far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella surprised this Sunday by obtaining the largest vote in the first round of the presidential elections in Colombiawho had a participation of 57.88%, and will contest the second round on June 21 with the leftist Iván Cepeda, who questioned the results. Turnout wasContinue Reading
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has been named in two separate criminal investigations led by prosecutors in the United States. The New York Times was the first to report the existence of the two probes on Friday, citing sources familiar with the proceedings. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listContinue Reading
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petroannounced this Saturday that his country and Venezuela will request their accession to the Mercosur as full members, one day after the meeting they held in Caracas ministers of the two countries, which he described as “supremely successful.” READ: The US embassy in Baghdad isContinue Reading
The president of the United States, donald trumpreceives his Colombian counterpart this Tuesday at the White House, Gustavo Petroafter a year of loud disagreements in which Washington has accused the South American president of being a drug trafficker and he has repeatedly criticized the Republican’s foreign policy. These are theContinue Reading
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A drunk driver who rammed his vehicle into several motorcyclists in the south of Bogotá was beaten to death the night before by a motorized mob that chased him after the accidents, local authorities reported this Wednesday. “Approximately two hundred people traveling on motorcycles chased a citizen who was travelingContinue Reading
