Kinley Salmon
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169 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 1 Jul
Kinley Salmon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Intelligence from The Economist · Deal or ordeal: Trump’s bad options in Cuba · 28 May 2026
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But many do compare him and his own beard resembles the populist president of El Salvador, Naeib Bukele.
Just like Bukele de la Espieya promises to build ten privately run mega prisons in the jungle.
He told me that mass trials of gang members are a possibility.
He said to me right now, Colombia doesn't have prisons, it has crime universities.
But his past has been criticized.
I asked him about, for example, the fact he represented as legal counsel Alex Saab.
Alex Saab was a close ally of Nicolas Maduro that recently ousted president of Venezuela, and Saab has been extra to the USA on charges of money laundering.
Well Espriya says this was just a product of my work as a defense lawyer, he says I did absolutely nothing wrong, and he offers up a slightly gratuitous a bit sexual analogy to ram home the point.
He's inquired about my marital fidelity yet and then followed up by saying But when I was single, did I used to date a lot of women?
And apparently this is all in service of explaining there's a difference between the role of a defense lawyer and the role of a president, just like there's a difference between the role of a single man and the role of a married one.
So at the very least he's quite a character.
Well, that's right.
In some ways, she is a total insider.
She's the granddaughter of a former Colombian president.
She's the political protege of Alvaro Ribe, a very influential, more recent former president.
And she's got a team of experienced politicians around more.
She is, frankly, in many ways, more sensible than the other two candidates.
She's tough on security, but she cares about the informal economy.
She wants education to be a priority.
And she'd be the first female president for Colombia, but she didn't
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