We've got major news out of South America, where anti-socialist leaders are taking over their nations now that USAID has been defunded.
Aberaldo de la Espriella, known as "El Tigre," has won with his tough-on-crime, anti-cartel politics modeled after El Salvador's Nayib Bukele.
If you want to know whether this is good or bad, just look at the media reaction. If CNN, The Guardian, and The New York Times are upset, you know it's a good thing!
More from Reuters on the Trump-endorsed champion:
Colombian right-wing candidate Abelardo De La Espriella has clinched a narrow victory in Sunday's presidential election, according to an initial ballot count, as voters bet on his Donald Trump-endorsed promise of a crackdown on crime and a stronger economy.
De La Espriella had 49.66% of the vote while his rival, Senator Ivan Cepeda, trailed by some 250,000 votes at 48.70%, according to the national registrar's tally of just under 100% of ballots in the runoff election.
It was a close one, but Colombia is now no longer under socialist rule.
Secretary of State Rubio had thoughts:
Latin America is changing rapidly.
Here is a picture of South America's political control from 2023 (left) versus mid-2026 (right), with red countries representing right-wing control:
The timing of this is odd, though.
Trump turned off the USAID slush fund that was funneling billions of dollars to Marxist causes and now all of the socialists are losing power everywhere all at once?
Funny how that works, isn't it?
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