Colombia's next president will be a far right millionaire. What does it tell us about Latin America?

He wants to bomb coca plantations, kill criminals ‘like rats and cockroaches’ and build 10 mega-prisons. This is the new Colombian president. Subscribe ► https://www.youtube.com/user/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1 Abelardo de la Espriella is a Donald Trump-admiring far-right millionaire lawyer and self-styled ‘outsider’, who defeated the leftwing senator Ivan Cepeda by a razor-thin margin to win Colombia’s presidential runoff. The election promises to mark a dramatic shift in the country’s decades-long armed conflict. During his campaign, he said he will seek closer ties with the US and has received backing from Trump and the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio. #colombiaelection #colombia #abelardodelaespriella #trump #farright