Luis Fajardo
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404 appearances
21 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 29 Aug
Luis Fajardo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Global News Podcast · Trump warns Iran deal 'not final' ahead of signing on Friday · 17 Jun 2026
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I wasn't expecting him to play.
He is flamboyant, a very, very colorful character, as he has been described.
He made a big impact on social media.
He was originally a criminal defense lawyer.
And he became famous by flaunting both his professional success as a lawyer and his substantial wealth.
He traveled around in private jets.
He was very, very outspoken.
And he became very well known before finally joining this presidential election, where he campaigns as an outsider under the promise of reforming Colombian politics.
And as he says, imposing new hardship on what he calls the left that is that in his words is destroying the country.
Extremely different, as you say.
Mr. Cepeda, who is running for the governing historic pact, the pact of the political party of the current president, Gustavo Petro, Mr. Cepeda says he wants to continue with the signature policy of Petro, which was trying to establish dialogue with a number of Colombian illegal armed groups, both Marxist guerrilla groups and criminal organizations.
These have not been successful, these talks yet.
during the Petro administration.
Instead, Mr. de la Espriella says he wants a very hardline law and order approach, which he says is basically going to be a military crackdown on these illegal armed groups and also very harsh criminal policies, for example, establishing large jails similar to the ones that have been set up in El Salvador to fight the problem of criminality.
So again, extremely different diagnosis and extremely different solutions proposed
for the problem of Colombian violence, which, as you mentioned, has continued all these years.
There's been a lot of discussion about what the U.S.
government would do in the event of a CEPEDA administration.
One of the things that observers have noted, however, is that Mr. Trump has not intervened directly in this election in a way similar to what had happened in other Latin American countries where the Trump administration intervened.
definitely took a very, very explicit and also controversial position backing one of the parties.
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