Graham Finlay

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481 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6d ago

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Today with David McCullagh · Trump-backed outsider wins Colombian presidential election · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

One of the controversies in the campaign was him showing pictures, and I hope I can say this on morning radio, of his genitalia to a female journalist in an interview, which, you know, like I said, gives you some sense of the man.

But not yet.

But anyway, so, you know, it was a time, you know, Petro went in on a left populist reaction to the sort of failures of Colombia's state institutions to deal with a number of problems, including the ongoing crisis.

horrendous conflict, which has happened in Colombia since 1958, but is at the basis of a peace process since 2016.

He had some initial success in addressing some of the grievances of the people, especially around the economy, but also violence and also reaching out to marginalized groups like Afro-Colombians, indigenous groups and so forth.

Dampening down a sort of crackdown military style approach, which was very much what de la Esprie was offering in the imitation of Nayib Bukele's work in El Salvador, setting up massive mega prisons where prisoners are treated incredibly cruelly.

Bukele has, through that and possibly other means, managed to reduce crime in El Salvador considerably.

De la Esprie is promising that for Colombia.

Law and order and a different orientation to the conflict.

Again, more of a military style crackdown.

This could really backfire if...

This brings some of the rebel groups like the National Liberation Army.

Many of them are on ceasefire and are part of a peace process which has been going on for 10 years now, like the FARC famously, but also Petro's own M19 group, which became a peaceful political party in 1990.

Anyway, if he cracks down too hard, and especially on people who would be seen to his left –

You know, the extreme version of this is it could reignite the conflict.

Yeah.

I mean, it is really hard to overstate it.

And I think it's important, however, to in various ways to talk about the good aspects of Colombia.

People who've been there will tell you it is the most hospitable and welcoming place ever.

You can imagine the people are incredible.

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