John Otis
speaker
712 appearances
80 recordings
5 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 4 Sep
John Otis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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On This American Life, one thing we like is a good mystery.
Sometimes about really big things, but most times, the little mysteries are the best.
Abelardo de la Espraya is a criminal defense lawyer who has never before held political office.
But his campaign has picked up steam thanks to his pledges to end peace talks with drug trafficking guerrillas and launch a military offensive.
I'm going to give the order to bomb all the campaigns.
If elected, de la Espraya said in this TV interview, I will give the order to bomb all of the camps holding narco-terrorists.
His opponent is Ivan Cepeda, a left-wing senator from the ruling party who has promised to reduce violence through negotiations with the rebels.
Colombia's outgoing president, Gustavo Petro, is banned by the constitution from seeking a second term.
For NPR News, I'm John Otis in Bogota, Colombia.
Abelardo de la Espraya is a criminal defense lawyer who has never before held political office.
But his campaign has picked up steam thanks to his pledges to end peace talks with drug-trafficking guerrillas and launch a military offensive.
His opponent is Ivan Zepeda, a left-wing senator from the ruling party who has promised to reduce violence through negotiations with the rebels.
Colombia's outgoing president, Gustavo Petro, is banned by the Constitution from seeking a second term.
For NPR News, I'm John Otis in Bogota, Colombia.
Wait, this is true?
Trump announced on social media that the U.S.
Southern Command had carried out a, quote, swift and kinetic strike that executed Hector Rustenford Guerrero Flores, also known as Niño Guerrero.
He was the leader of Trenderagua,
a Venezuelan gang that branched out to become a multinational crime organization by recruiting Venezuelan migrants.
Tren de Aragua eventually expanded to the United States, where it carried out a wave of robberies and is suspected in the shooting of two New York police officers.
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