Funny how this works.
The moment that USAID funds dried up, conservatives became competitive again in South and Central American elections.
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In Colombia, the pro-Trump, conservative candidate finished at the top of the polls this weekend but fell just below 50% of the vote. This means a runoff for the presidency will soon be under way.
Here's the Associated Press:
Tough-on-crime outsider Aberaldo de la Espriella took the lead in Colombia's presidential race in the first round of voting Sunday night, setting up a runoff with Iván Cepeda, an ally of Colombia's outgoing President Gustavo Petro who questioned the results of the election.
With no candidate taking an outright majority of the vote, the election will head to a second round in June.
But Cepeda and Petro sowed doubt in the results of the first round, claiming without evidence that hundreds of thousands of votes were manipulated and that foreign actors manipulated the results of the election.
They're pulling out the "Russian interference" playbook from Hillary in Colombia because the libs are losing elections!
If Espriella, a Bukele copycat who calls himself "El Tigre," pulls this off, it would be a major upset of power in Bogota.
Cepeda said he was waiting for electoral authorities to scrutinize the results before accepting the election.
'Only when the vote-counting commissions have fully clarified what happened will we comment on tonight's results,' Cepeda said, though he acknowledged the vote was likely going to a second round.
Cepeda won 41% of the vote, while de la Espriella won 44% of the votes, with 99.98% of the results counted by electoral authorities.
I guess Cepeda is waiting for that last minute midnight vote drop to come in from Texas? 👇
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The candidate in third place, Paloma Valencia, was considered a "center-right" candidate, meaning that her votes would likely go to the far-right "El Tigre" Espriella.
She has now endorsed her former opponent over the "communist" Cepeda.
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South America is quickly becoming Bukele-Trump country. Decline is a choice!
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