Colombia presidential vote: pro-Trump far-right De la Espriella wins shock first round as Petro refuses the count

Argentina

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Progressive Latam losing its last ally · 3 of 12 countries

Buenos Aires watches Milei congratulate De la Espriella and reads the result as confirmation of its own regional offensive

Brazil

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Progressive Latam losing its last ally · 3 of 12 countries

Brasília grasps that it has just lost its last South American ally and reads the sequence through the Bolsonaro 2018 mirror

Colombia

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Fractured Colombia · 1 of 12 countries

Bogotá is living through a fractured electoral night: 43.77% for the Tiger, 40.88% for Cepeda, and a president who rejects the figures before midnight

Spain

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Europe alarmed by the far-right international · 3 of 12 countries

Madrid reads Valencia's fall as the end of the Uribista cycle and the birth of "post-Uribism," while sounding the alarm on the TikTok and evangelical backing

United States

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Strategic Anglo-Saxons · 2 of 12 countries

Washington reads the vote as a diplomatic victory ahead of time and a setback for cocaine diplomacy

France

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Europe alarmed by the far-right international · 3 of 12 countries

Paris sees in the Colombian sequence the regional diffusion of a Milei-Bukele-Trump model and the programmed end of the Petro experiment

Italy

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Europe alarmed by the far-right international · 3 of 12 countries

Rome retains the Tiger's most radical formula — "democracy must be maintained by reason or by force"

Mexico

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Progressive Latam losing its last ally · 3 of 12 countries

Mexico City hears Cepeda say "the poor first" as an echo of AMLO and watches the next piece of the Latin American right-wing domino rise

Qatar

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Skeptical Global South observer · 2 of 12 countries

Doha rereads the vote as a "punishment vote" against the political class and raises the critical Global South voice on the war on drugs

United Kingdom

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Strategic Anglo-Saxons · 2 of 12 countries

London watches the vote with the lucidity of the distant observer and dwells on the unprecedented mutual attacks between candidates

Singapore

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Neutralizing financial center · 1 of 12 countries

Singapore measures first the market effect — peso +3.75%, stock market +6.3%, 2042 bonds up — and reads the vote as an investment data point

Turkey

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Skeptical Global South observer · 2 of 12 countries

Ankara relays De la Espriella's direct appeal to the United States and inscribes the vote in the grammar of "war or peace"