Colombia bets on ‘the Tiger,’ a Trump-backed far-right populist headed to the presidency
- Posted on June 22, 2026
- By CNN
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Colombia bets on ‘the Tiger,’ a Trump-backed far-right populist headed to the presidency
He won the preliminary vote count in Colombia’s presidential elections on Sunday, with promises that a vote for him would mean a definitive crackdown on the country’s decades-long crisis of crime and armed conflict.