In all of those countries, the stepped-up activity of drug gangs has heightened fears about crime – and become a potent campaign issue
By Steve Moore
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Texas Insider Report) — Columbia held the first-round of its presidential election on Sunday and the results continued the clear trend sweeping Latin America - conservative parties doing well on a platform of pursuing closer ties with the U.S. and less government control of the economy.
The pattern is consistent and clear. Columbia would become at least the sixth nation in the Americas to move to the right and eschew socialism.
Freedom Is Coming to the Americas:
- 2023 Argentina
- During 2025 with Donald Trump back in office,
- Ecuador in April, 2025
- Bolivia in August, 2025
- Honduras in November, 2025
- Chile in December 2025
- And 2026?
- Costa Rica in February of this year,
- and Peru & Brazil may be the next
In all of those countries the stepped-up activity of drug gangs has heightened fears about crime and become a potent campaign issue. But so too has been the economy.
In Colombia, Alberto de la Espriella won 43% of the vote on a free-market platform that promised to bring the fracking revolution to his country. Leftist Ivan Cepeda Castro, a former member of the Communist Party, won 40% of the vote, but will be the underdog in the June 21 runoff because the third-place finisher in Sunday’s vote is endorsing de la Espriella.
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