YEAR II  ·  No. 580  ·  FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2026

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The active police force that owes Petro obedience was already enrolled in the campaign demanding his disobedience

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On 7 July, Colombia’s president-elect publicly asked the Armed Forces to disobey Gustavo Petro should his orders contradict the Constitution. Ten days earlier, a data-journalism alliance made up of Cuestión Pública, Vorágine, Rutas del Conflicto, El Veinte and the Centro Latinoamericano de Investigación Periodística had revealed that nearly 17,000 public officials, including active-duty police and … CONTINUE READING →

How Vote-Buying, Falsified Forms and Imperial Indifference Emptied Colombia’s Presidential Election of Meaning

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Juan Rulfo imagined a village where the dead keep talking because no one told them everything was over. In Comala, voices circulate, orders are carried out, the land obeys a power that no longer exists in any material sense. Colombia held its presidential run-off on 21 June 2026 with record turnout, more than twenty-five million … CONTINUE READING →

Fraud Doesn’t Need to Be Proven to Work: How Colombia Turned Unverifiability Into a System of Government

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On Sunday 31 May 2026, nearly 24 million Colombians voted in the presidential first round. Abelardo de la Espriella obtained 43.74% of votes cast; Iván Cepeda, of the Pacto Histórico, came second with 40.90%. That same evening, President Petro alleged the illicit addition of 885,400 voter IDs to the electoral register, modification of the electoral … CONTINUE READING →