Hal Hodson
speaker
137 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Hal Hodson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It looks to be definitive.
The preliminary count is followed almost immediately by the official count, where there's a judge or a notary observing the count.
And that's almost finished as we speak right now as well.
And it actually gives Del Espre a slightly higher lead, almost a full percentage point lead.
There will no doubt be challenges from the left, in particular from the incumbent president Gustavo Petro, but in terms of the count, it is looking pretty secure.
Well, far and away the biggest issue for voters was security.
Colombia is a country with a long history of violence and political violence.
And the problem is that ever since the deal that the government made with the FARC, which is the main rebel group that was fighting the Colombian government for years, a deal they made in twenty sixteen, at first that deal
It was going pretty well and violence was declining.
But over the last four years, Mr.
Petro has been in power and he's been taking a different tact dealing with gangs and rebel groups.
He has been trying to negotiate with all of them at once using a policy called Paz Total, Total Peace.
And basically this hasn't been working.
And Colombians have turned out en masse to
vote against that.
Del Espreya is a suave, social media, savvy former criminal defense lawyer.
He's very rich.
He has houses all over the world.
He's a US citizen and an Italian one as well as Colombian.
And he is in the mold of the El Salvadorian president Bukele.
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