YEAR II  ·  No. 590  ·  WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2026

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Ivan Cepeda

Cepeda and De la Espriella accuse each other of plotting an autoatentado as the MOE calls for toning down campaign rhetoric four days before the runoff

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Dos podios vacíos enfrentados sobre un mapa fragmentado de Colombia, ciudad y montañas al atardecer

On 8 June 2026, thirteen days before the presidential runoff, the two candidates contesting the Casa de Nariño, seat of the Colombian presidency, accused each other, on the same social network and within a few hours of one another, of preparing an autoatentado, a staged attack against the candidate himself intended to influence the outcome … CONTINUE READING →

18,677 Reasons to Choose Peace Again: Anatomy of a Kidnapped Figure

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The number 18,677 took more than a decade to come into existence and barely a few weeks to become electoral ammunition. It was produced by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, the tribunal created by the 2016 accord to prosecute the crimes of Colombia’s armed conflict, after painstaking cross-referencing on the recruitment of minors by the … 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 →