{"id":6914,"date":"2026-08-08T14:29:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/times509.com\/?p=6914"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:30:02","slug":"abelardo-de-la-espriella-elected-president-of-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/abelardo-de-la-espriella-elected-president-of-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"Abelardo de la Espriella elected president of Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Millionaire lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella officially took the presidency of Colombia on Friday, determined to fight guerrillas and drug trafficking, a shift that tightens ties with Washington and puts an end to the peace negotiations led by his left-wing predecessor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Millionaire lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella officially took office as President of Colombia on Friday, determined to fight guerrillas and drug trafficking, marking a shift that tightens ties with Washington and ends the peace negotiations led by his leftist predecessor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I swear before God and promise the people to faithfully uphold the Constitution and laws of Colombia,&#8221; said the 48-year-old political newcomer during a ceremony in Cali (southwest), AFP journalists reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Elected in June and representing the hard right, he is supported by U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millionaire lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella officially took the presidency of Colombia on Friday, determined to fight guerrillas and drug trafficking, a shift that tightens ties with Washington and puts&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"content-type":"","_aifi_custom_prompt":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-6914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6916,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914\/revisions\/6916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6914"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}