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Leftwing opponent alleges vote count irregularities after Trump-endorsed lawyer secures narrow majority The Trump-admiring far-right millionaire lawyer and self-styled “outsider” Abelardo de la Espriella has won Colombia’s presidential runoff, defeating the leftwing senator Iván Cepeda. With 99.98%...
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21 sources across Left, Center, and Right all describe the same event.
93/99 — headlines create a clearly different first impression.
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Leftwing opponent alleges vote count irregularities after Trump-endorsed lawyer secures narrow majority The Trump-admiring far-right millionaire lawyer and self-styled “outsider” Abelardo d...
De La Espriella, 47, has proposed a tough crackdown on crime, as well as the end to peace talks with armed groups and a boost to Colombia's oil and gas sector.
Abelardo De la Espriella appears to be Colombia’s next president, according to preliminary results from Sunday’s runoff election.
Colombia faces a tight runoff election between a progressive and a conservative outsider.
A victory for Abelardo De La Espriella, a lawyer with no previous political experience, would be a rebuke to the left and another win for the right in Latin America.
Political outsider Abelardo de la Espriella holds a razor-thin lead in Colombia’s presidential election with nearly all the votes counted, in a runoff vote marked by people’s fears of a ren...
If Abelardo de la Espriella can maintain his lead, the conservative lawyer's victory would make Colombia the latest Latin American country to align with Trump.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Deeply divided Colombians voted for their next president in a runoff Sunday that pitted a progressive against a conservative outsider, both of whom tapped into fears...
A supporter of presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella of the opposition Defenders of the Motherland movement wave flags at a celebration rally after polls closed in the runoff elec...
Abelardo de la Espriella, a 47-year-old lawyer who has never held public office, narrowly won Colombia's presidential runoff. De la Espriella, who had received Donald Trump's 'complete and...
A flamboyant US-backed lawyer who has never held public office narrowly won Colombia’s presidential run-off on Sunday, swinging the country hard to the right on a promise to wage war agains...
Trump-loving political outsider Abelardo de la Espriella narrowly beats leftist continuity candidate
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombians are casting ballots in a closely fought presidential runoff Sunday between a progressive and a…
The Western Hemisphere is turning right.
Whoever wins will grapple with high public debt and a divided Congress, which could stymie reform proposals
The polarized nation headed to the polls amid its worst security crisis in decades.
Colombians made history on Sunday as they voted for the country’s 48th president in a runoff election between left-wing candidate Iván Cepeda and right-wing candidate Abelardo de la Espriel...
Conservative lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella narrowly won the preliminary vote count in Colombia’s presidential election, likely sweeping aside Gustavo Petro’s leftist movement and realigni...
The options before voters were business owner and lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella and Iván Cepeda, a lawmaker and heir to the political movement of outgoing President Gustavo Petro, the nat...
The next nation in our hemisphere to determine the political direction appears in Colombia, where MAGA aligned Albelardo Espriella is facing socialist aligned Ivan Cepeda, the favorite of t...
Colombians are voting in an election where senator Ivan Cepeda is racing against Abelardo de la Espriella.
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