Colombia’s outgoing President Gustavo Petro tore into his US counterpart Donald Trump on Thursday for supporting a hard-right candidate to succeed him, accusing Washington of allying itself with the “narco-traffickers” it professes to combat.
The famously outspoken Petro was reacting to Trump’s full-throated endorsement of tough-talking lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella over a leftist senator in Colombia’s presidential election.
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De la Espriella, 47, made a fortune representing drug-trafficking paramilitaries, fraudsters and football stars.
He generated surprise by defeating leftist Senator Ivan Cepeda, an ally of Petro, in the first round of voting in Sunday’s presidential election.
