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The battle between De la Espriella and Cepeda has come to an end, and little is left of Colombia’s democracy. Support Colombia Reports as a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠paid subscriber⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or with a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠one-time donation⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. The post Colombia’s election crisis: scandals, foreign Interference, and democracy at risk appeared first on Colombia News.

Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office opened a formal investigation into former President Alvaro Uribe for his alleged ties to a paramilitary group in his native Antioquia province. In a post on social media platform X, Uribe said he had been called to testify about his role in the two massacres and the assassination of a human rights defender who publicly denounced the former president when he was governor of Antioquia between 1995 and 1997. The Prosecutor General’s Office su

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 tremendous accompli

US migration authorities arrested a prominent Colombian influencer after filing criminal charges against far-right presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella. According to video sent to Colombian journalists, Beto Coral was arrested by four agents of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) at his home in Arizona. In a message to Senator-elect Wally Rodriguez, Coral said that he was told by one of the agents that the order to arrest him had come straight from State Secretary Marco Rubio. The

The campaign of far-right presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella paid COP1.3 million ($363,720) to an apparent front company, reported Cambio magazine. The company, Nova Soporte Integral, had been liquidated in October of 2023 and resurfaced in February, according to Cambio. The company’s formal legal representative was a Medellin college student, who received government support because of his allegedly vulnerable situation and deleted his social media profiles after he was contac

Concern of violence in the immediate aftermath of Colombia’s elections grow amid increasing insecurity about the influence of vote-buying. Support Colombia Reports as a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠paid subscriber⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or with a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠one-time donation⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. The post Post-election violence possible amid concerns of vote-buying appeared first on Colombia News.

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The leftist candidate in Colombia’s election race, Senator Ivan Cepeda, announced a criminal complaint against his far-right opponent for allegedly belonging to the now-defunct paramilitary organization AUC. In a press conference, Cepeda said that his team filed a criminal complaint before the Prosecutor General’s Office and the International Criminal Court to investigate whether De la Espriella “directly belonged to and acted as part of the AUC” as the then-director of F

A member of the Accusations Committee of Colombia’s Congress ordered the suspension of President Gustavo Petro, bypassing all steps that would give such a decision legal validity. In a ruling, House Representative Gloria Arizabaleta ordered “the provisional suspension of Mr. Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego from his position as president” until June 21 at 4PM. The ruling shocked colleagues, who said that individual members of the Accusations Committee can’t suspend presiden

The Superior Court of Bogota gave far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella 24 hours to stop using national symbols in his presidential campaign. The court additionally told De la Espriella to stop using the word “patria” (homeland) in his propaganda, effectively banning the far-right campaign’s name, “Defensores de la patria” (Defenders of the homeland), and its slogan, “Firme por la patria” (firm for the homeland). The candidate and his campaign wer

Leftist presidential candidate, Senator Ivan Cepeda, appointed an attorney to lead investigations into alleged vote-buying by his opponent, the far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella. In a press conference, Cepeda said Saturday that his campaign received information about “possible financial irregularities and illegal activities on the part of Mr. De la Espriella’s campaign.” The senator said to have received evidence of “alleged vote-buying or the transfer of large sums of

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Colombia’s top electoral authority, the National Electoral Council (CNE), confirmed the outcome of the presidential election’s first round after finding no evidence of the fraud alleged by outgoing President Gustavo Petro. In a ruling that followed the scrutiny of votes, the CNE confirmed that far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella and leftist Senator Ivan Cepeda were elected to the second round of the election. The scrutiny, which corrects wrongly counted tally sheets, found no e

The leftist candidate Ivan Cepeda called US President Donald Trump’s endorsement of his far-right rival, Abelardo de la Espriella, as “somewhat interventionist” and urged respect for Colombia’s sovereignty. In a press statement, Cepeda accused his opponent of taking “unpatriotic actions aimed at having foreign governments intervene to determine the outcome of our election.” De la Espriella wants to import models from the United States that will undermine our sovereignty,

US President Donald Trump endorsed far-right presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella ahead of the second round of Colombia’s election. In a post on his Truth Social website, Trump congratulated De la Espriella for his victory in the first round, which surprisingly made the lawyer the frontrunner in the race. According to the US president, De la Espriella is “a Smart, Strong, and Tough Leader.” Trump dismissed the leftist candidate, Senator Ivan Cepeda, as a “Radic

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday that he can prove that the electoral census was inflated with more than 885,000 voter ahead of the first round on the presidential election. In a post on social media platform X, Petro said his decision to reject the results of the preliminary count presented by the National Registry’s Office was based on evidence of fraud “I can surrender to the competent authority.” “The modification involved updating the voter regis

The runner-up in the first round of Colombia’s presidential election, Senator Ivan Cepeda, backtracked on allegations that the surprise success of far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella was due to fraud. At a press conference, Cepeda said that “we have not found any evidence of incidents that would… be of such a nature or severity as to warrant a statement regarding any potential irregularities.” According to the leftist candidate, a team of electoral witnesses from

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Colombia’s leftist presidential candidate, Senator Ivan Cepeda, said Sunday that he does not accept the preliminary results of the first round election that surprisingly saw far-right attorney Abelardo de la Espriella come out on top. In a speech before supporters, Cepeda called on electoral authorities to scrutinize the allegedly last-minute registry of hundreds of thousands of voters to the voter registry of the National Registry, which organizes the elections. There is a discrepancy tha

Far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella won the first round of Colombia’s presidential election and will face leftist Senator Ivan Cepeda in a run-off vote on June 21, according to the preliminary count. With 99% of the votes counted, De la Espriella received the support of 43.7% of Colombia’s voters. Cepeda received 40.9% of the votes and defeated the establishment candidate. Support for far-right Senator Paloma Valencia, who had been polled as De la Espriella’s immediate conte