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Israel’s Global Counter-Offensive Has Begun

August 23, 2026 Ramzy Baroud, Counter Punch. , , , , , ,
Colombia’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights marks a dangerous turning point. By becoming only the second country in the world – after the United States – to endorse Israel’s illegal annexation of Syrian territory, Bogotá has signaled a complete reversal of Gustavo Petro’s foreign policy under new far-right President Abelardo de la Espriella. However, Colombia is not an isolated case. It reflects a broader, highly aggressive campaign by Israel to systematically dismantle and reverse hard-won pro-Palestine and pro-Arab positions worldwide.

USA And Israel Put Drug Cartel-Linked US Citizen In Power In Colombia

August 20, 2026 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. , , , , ,
The United States has a long history of meddling in the internal affairs of Latin America. But in recent years, US interference has become even more extreme and explicit. And it is not just the US that is meddling in Latin American politics, but also Israel. A case study of this foreign interference is the political situation today in Colombia. Colombia has a new, multimillionaire, far-right president named Abelardo de la Espriella. He is a US citizen who voted for Donald Trump, and worked for years as a lawyer in Miami, Florida, defending drug traffickers. De la Espriella has outsourced Colombia’s foreign policy to Washington, and he strongly supports Israel, while vowing to limit ties with China.

De La Espriella Ends Colombia’s Peace Policy

August 19, 2026 BreakThrough News. , , ,
In his first week in office, despite fumbling the response to the devastating earthquake, Abelardo De la Espriella made good on his promise to end the state policy of promoting peace and launch military actions against armed groups in the country. Beginning on August 9, the Armed Forces launched an offensive in which, according to the Army, four members of the FARC dissident group were killed in Meta, and two others from the Clan del Golfo were killed in Antioquia. Between August 10 and 11, in Catatumbo, authorities reported the deaths of two ELN members, as well as the destruction of two bunkers and five camps.

Colombia: De La Espriella Faces Criticism Over Earthquake Response

August 14, 2026 BreakThrough News. , , ,
Just three days after Colombia’s new President Abelardo De la Espriella was sworn into office, an earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale struck the western part of the country. The quake was felt particularly strongly in the regions of Chocó, Caldás, Risaralda, and Valle del Cauca, among others, and was so powerful that it was even felt in neighboring Panama and Ecuador. So far, authorities have reported the deaths of 280 people, a figure that is rising steadily as the hours pass, especially considering that anywhere between 2,000 and 4,200 people are currently reported missing (the total number of missing varies according to different entities). In addition, more than 1,300 people have been injured, some seriously.

Trump’s Man In Bogotá

August 11, 2026 Mina Mosallanejad, Orinoco Tribune. , , ,
De la Espriella, a 48-year-old lawyer, took the oath of office on Friday after securing a marginal victory over his left-wing opponent, Senator Iván Cepeda, in Colombia’s presidential race. He defeated Cepeda in the June 21 runoff with 49.66% of the vote against Cepeda’s 48.70%. It was the narrowest margin of victory ever recorded in a Colombian presidential election. US President Donald Trump had personally endorsed de la Espriella’s campaign and helped install a man who replaces Gustavo Petro, who was staunchly pro-Palestine and anti-West. In a social media post, Trump gave de la Espriella his “complete and total endorsement,” claiming that “the results of this Election are very important to the future of Colombia and its relationship to the United States.”

President Petro Files Lawsuit To Annul Colombian Presidential Election

July 22, 2026 TeleSur, Orinoco Tribune. , , ,
On Tuesday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that a lawsuit has been filed with the Council of State to request the annulment of the presidential election of far-right candidate Abelardo De la Espriella. The outgoing head of state, in a message posted on his social media account, announced: “Here is the demand for the annulment of the 2026 presidential election.” He stated that the lawsuit “is filed by ‘digital witnesses’, who number 70,000 citizens, who managed to discover, in the traces left by the metadata of documents uploaded to the internet by the electoral counting software, the algorithmic manipulation that occurred of the real vote of the Colombian citizens.”

Colombia’s Left After The 2026 Election

July 10, 2026 Teri Mattson, Orinoco Tribune. , , , ,
Within hours of Colombia’s June 21 presidential runoff, major international news organizations declared the country’s conservative candidate the victor. Political commentators across the hemisphere described the result as another blow to Latin America’s progressive “Pink Tide” and another victory for the global right. Yet on the streets of Bogotá, where international election observers continued watching the vote count unfold, the mood was markedly different. The official scrutiny process was still underway. Progressive candidate Iván Cepeda had not yet conceded.

Cepeda Calls For Calm; Colombia’s Tight Presidential Vote Count Continues

June 22, 2026 TeleSur English. , , ,
On Monday, Ivan Cepeda, the candidate of the Historic Pact, held a press conference to state his position regarding the results of the Colombian presidential elections that took place on June 21. More specifically, he addressed the status of the official vote count, called on citizens to remain calm and responded to several statements made by far-right presidential candidate Bernardo de la Espriella. Cepeda began by saying that the presidential election results showed an extremely narrow margin of less than 1%, the smallest difference in the history of presidential runoffs in Colombia.

Colombia: An Ethical Revolution (With A Grassroots Focus)

June 3, 2026 David Escobar, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
Colombia is approaching the most important election on the continent—and possibly on the planet. Not because Bogotá will decide merely the administrative fate of a peripheral state, but because something far more profound is at stake in Colombia: the possibility that Latin America will continue and deepen the historic rupture that began with Gustavo Petro’s government in the face of the old order of the armed oligarchic estate as a form of government. While Europe is consumed by its liberal exhaustion and the United States is once again flirting with mass fascism, the Latin American continent is once again becoming the decisive laboratory of global politics.

Colombian Peasant Organizations Launch National Strike

May 22, 2026 Jim Byrne, Fight Back! News. , , ,
Dozens of peasant organizations, unions and community organizations representing tens of thousands united for a national strike on May 20 to demand agrarian reform. Marches and street blockades in the countryside and major cities like Bogotá, Valledupar, Cartagena, Popayán, Montería and Sincelejo have shut down transportation and some services. The demands are for the creation of a judicial body that would have the power to resolve land disputes, advance agrarian reform, and for the Colombian Congress not to sabotage debate on the matter.

Key Outcomes From First Summit On ‘Transitioning Away’ From Fossil Fuels

May 12, 2026 Daisy Dunne, Resilience. , , , ,
The first conference on “transitioning away” from fossil fuels held in Santa Marta, Colombia, from 24-29 April saw 57 countries – representing one-third of the world’s economy – debate practical ways to move away from coal, oil and gas. Against a backdrop of war, a global oil crisis and worsening extreme weather events, ministers and envoys from across the world sat side-by-side in small meeting rooms to have open and frank conversations about the barriers they face in transitioning from fossil fuels to clean energy. This new format – devised by co-hosts Colombia and the Netherlands – was described as “refreshing”, “highly successful” and “groundbreaking” by countries attending the talks.

The World’s First Nonviolent Municipality

May 11, 2026 Stacie Freasier, Waging Nonviolence. , , ,
High in the mountains of western Antioquia, Colombia, where the mist settles into the coffee fields each morning and the air smells of wet earth and woodsmoke, exists the rural municipality of Caicedo. Approximately 60 miles from Medellín, Caicedo is home to around 10,000 campesinos, of whom only about 2,000 reside in its small urban center. Something incredible takes place here. The people have chosen peace. Not once, in a moment of hope. But over and over again — through decades of terror, through kidnapping and murder, through grief so deep it could have swallowed them whole. They chose it at the ballot box.

A United Front In Santa Marta Demands A Fossil-Free Future

April 29, 2026 Asian People's Movement on Debt and Development. , , ,
Santa Marta, Colombia — Today, the salt air of Santa Marta mixed with the rhythmic chants of hundreds as a vibrant “March for a Fossil Free Future” surged through the city’s historic center. Local residents, Afro-descendants, women, youth, international movements and Indigenous Peoples from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta joined global civil society and climate justice activists in a powerful display of unity, timed to coincide with the arrival of delegates to the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels.

Ecuador And Colombia Recall Ambassadors And Trade Insults

April 11, 2026 People's Dispatch. , , , ,
Tensions between the South American neighbors show no signs of abating. Days after Colombian President Gustavo Petro called former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas a political prisoner, the government of Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa announced a 100% tariff on all Colombian products entering the country. Colombia’s Minister of Commerce Diana Morales announced on the following day, Friday, April 10, that Colombia would reciprocate with a 100% tariff on Ecuadorian goods. The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry also requested that the Ecuadorian ambassador to Colombia, Arturo Félix Wong, return to Ecuador as a protest against Petro’s statements, which they deemed “false”. 

The War On Drugs Or The War On The Poor?

February 15, 2026 Laura Capote, People's Dispatch. , , ,
The constant insistence of the US discourse on the war on drugs seems to reflect a moral crusade by successive US administrations to rid their country of drug use. However, the truth is far removed from this simplistic idea that is often perpetuated by the mass media. In reality, what the so-called “War on Drugs” seeks to achieve, as demonstrated by our region’s history, is a facade for the development of various mechanisms of imperialist intervention that, since the 1970s, have involved a combination of methods ranging from military financing to countries in the region, the installation of military bases, and even explicit support for certain candidates in electoral contests.
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