Outgoing president of Colombia Gustavo Petro held a press conference on Monday in which he again claimed, against all public evidence, that the Colombian presidential election was "stolen" by President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, warning that "civil war" could erupt if the normal inauguration pr…
Colombian President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella takes office August 8, vowing to launch a war on drug gangs and cosy up to the United States. The former lawyer won June's run-off election by less than a percentage point.
As Abelardo de la Espriella is sworn in as Colombia's president in Cali, four priority decrees — not the full 90 he'd once pledged — mark his first day, alongside sweeping reversals of Gustavo Petro's foreign and security policy.
An outspoken conservative endorsed by Donald Trump was sworn into office as Colombia’s new president on Friday. Abelardo de la Espriella is the seventh rightwing politician to take office in Latin America since the start of Trump’s second term.
The new president of Colombia was inaugurated on Friday. Abelardo de la Espriella won a tight race in June, ending Colombia's leftist movement with a sharp pivot to the right. Liz Landers takes a look at the president and his tight relationship with the Trump White House.
The presidency of Abelardo de la Espriella, a lawyer and businessman with little experience in politics, comes after four years of a progressive government that sat down to negotiate with armed groups.
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Conservative Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in as Colombia's president Friday, not in the capital as is the tradition, but in the volatile southwestern city of Cali in a move meant to signal his hard-line approach to illegal armed groups operating in the region.
