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Meet Analilia Mejia, the Sanders-AOC backed progressive who just won election to Congress

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Analilia Mejia, a one-time labor organizer backed by progressive champions Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, is headed to Congress.

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Mejia, running on a platform that emphasized Medicare for All, a $25 minimum wage with the first $40,000 tax-free, a wealth tax, abolishing ICE and holding President Donald Trump and his administration accountable, convincingly defeated Republican candidate Joe Hathaway in Thursday’s special election in New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District.

With her nearly 20-point victory, Mejia will fill the final eight months of the term of Gov. Mikie Sherrill, the more moderate Democratic representative who stepped down from Congress in November after winning New Jersey’s gubernatorial election.

Mejia, who is likely to align herself with the so-called «Squad» of younger, diverse and progressive House Democrats, called herself the «sassy new member of Congress» in her victory speech.

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Analilia Mejia smiles as she gestures to supporters after winning New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District special election, Thursday, April 16, 2026, in Montclair, N.J. (Frank Franklin II/AP Photo)

The special election came as the GOP clings to a fragile House majority. Republicans would have relished the opportunity to pick up the seat, but they faced a steep uphill climb to flip the suburban district Sherrill won by 15 points in her 2024 re-election and carried by roughly the same margin in last year’s gubernatorial election.

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Hathaway, a former Randolph Township mayor and current council member who was unopposed for the GOP congressional nomination, aimed to paint Mejia as too far to the left for the district. He told Fox News Digital the choice for voters was «between a common sense, practical independent leader who’s gotten things done at the local level in New Jersey and knows the issues, contrasted with someone who’s running on pure ideology, far left-wing ideology, Squad-backed ideology.»

«I think we have the right math, the right bipartisan coalition to come together to win this thing on April 16,» an optimistic Hathaway predicted.

But Hathaway came up far short, given the rough political climate facing Republicans and the traditional headwinds for the party in power.

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Mejia, on Thursday night, pushed back against the claims she’s a radical.

«My opponent has spent his whole campaign calling me names and saying my ideas are too radical. But we know, that is a mind trick, on brand for a spin doctor, but easily countered if you just open your eyes,» Mejia said. «It is not radical to say that one of the wealthiest nations in the world should do more to protect the health of its people.»

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Here’s a closer look at Mejia and where she stands on the issues.

Who is Analilia Mejia

Mejia was born in New Jersey and is the daughter of Colombian and Dominican immigrants.

After working as a union organizer, Mejia served as national political director on the 2020 Sanders presidential campaign. She later worked in the Department of Labor in former President Joe Biden’s administration.

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Mejia pulled off an upset in the February Democratic primary, narrowly edging out a more moderate rival, former Rep. Tom Malinowski, in a field of 11 candidates. While Mejia was the clear choice of the party’s left flank, the rest of the field divided the moderate and center-left vote.

Besides the backing of Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez, Mejia was also endorsed by other top progressive leaders, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Reps. Ro Khanna of California, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Pramila Jayapal of Washington state, the former chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

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Analilia Mejia secured the Democratic Party nomination in a special election to find out who will take over newly-elected New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s vacant House seat. (Heather Khalifa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Mejia’s nomination victory was another big boost for the left against the establishment since now-New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, sent shock waves across the nation with his Democratic primary victory in June 2025.

Immigration

Mejia repeatedly took aim at Trump’s unprecedented crackdown on illegal immigration and called for scrapping Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agency most visible in the aggressive tactics used in the administration’s massive deportation effort.

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«I say abolish ICE now,» Mejia said on the campaign trail. «You can’t reform it. It’s not fixable. Get it out.» 

After her primary victory, Mejia gave credit to her stance on immigration in the wake of backlash against the Trump administration following the January fatal shootings in Minnesota by federal agents of two U.S. citizens protesting immigration operations.

«I think the fact that I was bold and unafraid to speak the truth was incredibly important,» she told reporters. «I think voters feel that they want to have a representative that actually represents them, and they cannot watch what’s happening in Minnesota, what happened in Chicago, what happened in California, what happened in Morristown across this district.»

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Supreme Court

Mejia, like many on the left, has railed against rulings by the conservative-dominated Supreme Court.

«The Supreme Court has been captured by right-wing radicals who care more about doing Trump’s bidding than the rule of law,» Mejia charged on her campaign website.

She supported «articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito» for what she says is «their corruption and conflicts of interest.»

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Campaign signs for Republican candidate Joe Hathaway and Democrat Analilia Mejia in the NJ-11 special congressional election, in Randolph, New Jersey on April 13, 2026 (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

Mejia also backed «term limits for newly appointed Supreme Court justices, a binding code of ethics with real enforcement for all federal judges.»

And Mejia said she would support «expanding the courts if necessary to restore balance.»

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On her campaign website, Mejia stated, «We’re going to cancel all student loan debt.»

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And she pledges that she’ll «fight to make college tuition free at community colleges and trade schools for everyone.»

Taxes and Minimum Wage

As part of her «economy for everyone agenda,» Mejia argued, «If you work 40 hours a week, you should make at least $40,000 a year, and you shouldn’t pay a dime in federal taxes on that first $40,000.»

And she highlighted that she helped lead the fight in New Jersey to «win the $15 minimum wage.»

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«With the cost of living rising every day, it’s time to raise the minimum wage at the national level to $25/hour,» Mejia emphasized on the campaign trail.

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Malinowski, an assistant secretary of state in former President Barack Obama’s administration who later represented a neighboring congressional district in northern New Jersey from 2018 to 2022 before losing re-election, was considered the front-runner in the Democratic nomination race heading into primary day.

But Malinowski was the target of a slew of attack ads put out by a group affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which opposed Malinowski because he said he supports conditions on aid to Israel.

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The AIPAC-aligned super PAC United Democracy Project dished out more than $2.3 million to take aim at Malinowski, even though AIPAC had previously supported Malinowski in his past congressional elections.

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Jan 15, 2026; Caldwell, NJ, USA; Tom Malinowski during a meet and greet hosted by The League of Women Voters at Caldwell University with the candidates running for the Democratic nomination to fill the Congressional seat vacated by Gov. Mikie Sherrill. (Michael Karas/USA TODAY NETWORK)

But the AIPAC strategy backfired, because Mejia is much tougher on Israel than Malinowski.

Mejia was the only candidate in the race who raised her hand at a forum in January when asked if they agreed with human rights groups who charge Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in its war with Hamas in Gaza.

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Jewish voters make up a key part of the district’s electorate, and Hathaway, in the only debate in the general election, claimed Mejia was antisemitic, noting she has said Israel committed genocide in Gaza.

«She blamed Israel for the attacks by Hamas on Oct. 7,» Hathaway said. «I think Jewish individuals across this district, Republican or Democrat, are very afraid of this kind of rhetoric.»

Mejia pledged to «protect the rights of Jewish constituents» and said her criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza should not be conflated with antisemitism.

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In a statement to Fox News Digital, Mejia said, «Joe Hathaway’s inability to distinguish between criticism of a government or government official and bigotry is troubling and disgusting in equal measure.»

Mejia last week wrote that she was «honored» after being endorsed by the liberal pro-Israel political group J Street PAC. But her acceptance of the endorsement triggered pushback on the left, with the North Jersey Democratic Socialists of America calling her move a «heel turn.»

Hathaway told Fox News Digital, «I’ve spoken to more members of the Jewish community who have told me they’ve never voted for a Republican in their life, who are going to vote for me in this race. I mean, that shows you where the Jewish community is on the importance of this race and how they are not aligned with Mejia … and her platform.»

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It appears Hathaway was right: Some towns with heavy Jewish populations swung significantly to the right in Thursday’s election.

But it wasn’t nearly enough to help Hathaway blunt Mejia’s overall support.

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Guatemala: La PNC destruyó 68,160 matas de marihuana en Las Cruces, Petén

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La PNC informó que agentes de la SGAIA erradicaron e incineraron 68.160 matas de marihuana en Las Cruces, Petén, durante un operativo del 20 de junio. (Cortesía: PNC Guatemala)

La PNC informó que agentes de la SGAIA localizaron, erradicaron e incineraron 68.160 matas de marihuana en Las Cruces, Petén, durante un operativo realizado el 20 de junio en una zona montañosa de difícil acceso, una acción que las autoridades valoraron en Q34,08 millones (USD 4,463,278.60) y que se enmarca en la ofensiva del Estado contra los cultivos ilícitos en el norte de Guatemala.

El golpe se suma a otros operativos recientes en el mismo departamento. Según la Agencia Guatemalteca de Noticias, el 6 de junio fueron destruidas más de 115.416 plantas en el caserío Ixmuconé, Petén, con un avalúo superior a Q57,7 millones.

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La operación más reciente fue ejecutada por la Subdirección General de Análisis e Información Antinarcótica de la Policía Nacional Civil tras tareas de reconocimiento y búsqueda en áreas remotas del departamento. Después del hallazgo, los agentes arrancaron e incineraron las plantaciones conforme a los protocolos establecidos.

Las autoridades calcularon que el cultivo destruido tenía un valor aproximado de 34 millones 80 mil quetzales. La PNC sostuvo que la destrucción representa un golpe a las estructuras dedicadas a la producción y comercialización de drogas.

Las autoridades valoraron en Q34,08 millones la plantación de marihuana destruida en una zona montañosa de difícil acceso en Petén. (Cortesía: PNC Guate)
Las autoridades valoraron en Q34,08 millones la plantación de marihuana destruida en una zona montañosa de difícil acceso en Petén. (Cortesía: PNC Guate)

El municipio de Las Cruces se ha convertido en uno de los puntos más sensibles para este tipo de operaciones por sus extensas áreas montañosas, su difícil acceso y su cercanía fronteriza. De acuerdo con la información oficial incluida en el reporte, Petén es hoy el principal foco de localización de sembradíos clandestinos de marihuana en Guatemala.

En mayo de 2026, en el caserío Flor de la Esperanza, también en Petén, las fuerzas de seguridad localizaron e incineraron 87,800 plantas distribuidas en tres campos de cultivo, con un avalúo de Q43,9 millones. Ese mismo mes, en el caserío Ixcoch, agentes de la SGAIA erradicaron y quemaron 59.904 matas dentro del plan de desarticulación de bandas del crimen organizado.

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La respuesta a la pregunta central del operativo es concreta: la plantación destruida estaba compuesta por 68,160 matas de marihuana y fue encontrada en un sector montañoso del municipio de Las Cruces, Petén. La intervención terminó con la erradicación total y la quema en el lugar para impedir su traslado y su comercialización.

El protocolo guatemalteco exige contar, tomar muestras con supervisión fiscal y judicial, y luego arrancar e incinerar toda la plantación en el lugar para evitar su traslado al mercado ilegal. (Cortesía: PNC Guatemala)
El protocolo guatemalteco exige contar, tomar muestras con supervisión fiscal y judicial, y luego arrancar e incinerar toda la plantación en el lugar para evitar su traslado al mercado ilegal. (Cortesía: PNC Guatemala)

Según el Ministerio de Gobernación, la destrucción de estos cultivos forma parte de una estrategia permanente para impedir que la droga llegue a los mercados ilícitos de Guatemala y otros países de la región. La publicación oficial añadió que los operativos continúan en distintos puntos del país, sobre todo en áreas rurales y montañosas donde grupos criminales buscan establecer cultivos clandestinos.

El marco legal que rige estas acciones es la Ley Contra la Narcoactividad, Decreto 48-92, que prohíbe de forma estricta la siembra, el cultivo y la cosecha de marihuana en territorio guatemalteco. El protocolo establece que, tras localizar un sembradío, el personal antinarcótico realiza el conteo, toma muestras para pruebas de campo en coordinación con jueces fiscales y luego arranca e incinera la totalidad de la plantación en el mismo terreno.

La PNC sostuvo que la destrucción de las matas de marihuana representa un golpe a las estructuras dedicadas a la producción y comercialización de drogas. (Cortesía: PNC Guatemala)
La PNC sostuvo que la destrucción de las matas de marihuana representa un golpe a las estructuras dedicadas a la producción y comercialización de drogas. (Cortesía: PNC Guatemala)

Los registros oficiales citados por el medio también señalan que en 2025 Guatemala superó la erradicación histórica de 2,6 millones de matas de marihuana. Ese balance anual incluyó además la destrucción de miles de kilos de marihuana procesada y de plantaciones de otras sustancias ilícitas, como amapola y hoja de coca.

Fuera de Petén, los reportes oficiales ubican otros focos de incautación en San Marcos, en localidades como Tajumulco y Sipacapa, y en Totonicapán, donde se han desmantelado plantaciones menores en municipios como Momostenango.

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Obama Center visitors say project symbolic of ‘Black excellence,’ claim scandal-free legacy while Trump ripped

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CHICAGO — Opening weekend visitors at the Barack Obama Presidential Center called the 44th president’s legacy an example of unifying, scandal-free «Black excellence,» while they lamented what they view as a dark turn for the U.S. under President Donald Trump.

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«The community is great, we’re just kind of glad it’s here,» Lauren Tillman, who lives about 40 minutes outside of Chicago, told Fox News Digital. «We needed something like this. Chicago looks like a certain place to certain people who are not from the area… so I just think this brought everybody together, like, ‘oh there’s something for the community,’ for Black people, and on Juneteenth, so I thought that was great, too.»

The presidential center’s opening weekend began with a star-studded private ceremony and concert on Thursday night, and the 19.3-acre campus opened to the public on Friday during the Juneteenth holiday, which celebrates the day Black slaves were declared free in 1865.

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The Obama Presidential Center building is shown with its glass facade and surrounding trees. (Peter D’Abrosca/Fox News Digital)

«Just knowing that Chicago doesn’t always get the best rep, to know that we’ve had a Black president come from this place, and then to memorialize his legacy is just great,» said Ashley Woods, who joined Tillman at the opening.

«To know that [Obama] was going to try to do at least something for his people, that meant a lot to me and being here means a lot,» added Tillman.

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«And I think, to piggyback off that, I think the legacy is Black excellence,» continued Woods. «Again, growing up in a place like Chicago, you don’t really think you can do much besides being a rapper or, you know, going into sports, but so see that somebody actually made it to the top per se, they were able to run the nation, there was very little scandal around him and his family, like it just shows you that we can be more than what America tells us we can be.»

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Lauren Tillman and Ashley Woods speak with Fox News Digital at the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago on Friday. (Peter D’Abrosca/Fox News Digital)

Sheryl Rogers and Peggy Neely-Harris made the trip from St. Louis for the weekend’s festivities.

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«What it means for African Americans [is] a coming together, a reckoning, a remembrance of the excellence that is within each one of us, particularly in African Americans and particularly at this time when our very existence is under attack,» Rogers told Fox News Digital.

Neely-Harris agreed, and said that the brand new presidential center is a symbol of hope and renewal, and that the center is a «light in this present darkness.»

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Sheryl Rogers and Peggy Neely Harris speak with Fox News Digital on the opening weekend of the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, Friday. (Peter D’Abrosca/Fox News Digital)

«[Obama] has left an excellent example of how you should live, what type of character you should have and the love of family and community,» Rogers continued. «You can see love just exudes from them, and I love to see love in action.»

«No scandal,» she added.

However, Obama did face some major scandals and controversies during his two terms in the White House.

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Obama’s DOJ infamously seized records of Fox News’ phone lines, including a phone number that belonged to the parents of a reporter.

The seizure was approved after a warrant was granted by a judge, and in an affidavit seeking the warrant, an FBI agent called reporter James Rosen a likely criminal «co-conspirator» in a violation of the Espionage Act.

Obama also faced government weaponization claims when his IRS allegedly slow-rolled the tax-exempt nonprofit approval of grassroots conservative organizations that set out to oppose his agenda.

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Groups with words such as «Tea Party» or «Patriot» in their names were allegedly hindered from forming for months and years.

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Barack Obama speaks during the dedication of the Barack Obama Presidential Center, Thursday, in Chicago. (Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images)

Operation Fast and Furious was another chart-topping Obama scandal.

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ATF agents intentionally allowed illegal straw purchases of weapons near the U.S. southern border with Mexico, in hopes that tracking the firearms would lead them directly to high-level cartel kingpins. But the Obama-era agency failed to monitor at least 2,000 of the weapons, which did in fact make their way into the hands of dangerous characters.

One of the weapons in the ill-fated sting was used to kill Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in 2010.

When, in 2012, then-Attorney General Eric Holder was subpoenaed during a House Oversight Committee investigation into the matter, he refused to comply, disallowing the committee from seeing thousands of pages of records pertaining to the operation. He later became the first U.S. cabinet official to be held in contempt of Congress, but the Obama DOJ failed to prosecute him.

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Obama ordered the extrajudicial drone strike killings of four terror-tied Americans in Yemen without due process.

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Valerie Reynolds speaks to Fox News Digital during the opening weekend of the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, Friday. (Peter D’Abrosca/Fox News Digital)

Twenty-six-year-old Chicago resident Valerie Reynolds told Fox News Digital she thinks the center will improve the image of the city’s South Side, which often finds itself in news headlines for violence and poverty.

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«I think Barack Obama’s legacy is and will continue to be the inspiration of togetherness, of the power of what can be done and what can be created when we all come together,» she said. «It’s absolutely something that we are missing today. I’ve seen divisions in this country in ways that I’ve never seen before, and I was reminded of just how vast those divisions are being out here today, because it’s the first time I’ve felt this closeness since he ran for office in 2008.»

An emotional Kia Ware, a woman from Virginia, said the grand opening of the center was a sad reminder of the direction of the U.S. since Obama left office.

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Kia Ware speaks with Fox News Digital during the opening weekend of the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago on Friday. (Peter D’Abrosca/Fox News Digital)

«It makes me sad because I was so proud of everything that was accomplished during that legacy in terms of, you know, fighting for vulnerable people and vulnerable lands and protection of so many things that are now being erased forever, and I feel like it’s setting us back,» she said.

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Ware added that Obama is still a «powerhouse» in the Democratic Party, and said that people who believe in his legacy want him to «step back in.»

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«I guess it just means, like for me, I just am feeling very thankful that we have those eight years of history for putting women forward, putting minorities forward,» she said. «I felt like that unification, just seeing all people of different backgrounds and ages and generations here, I get that same feeling.»

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Balotaje en Colombia: el izquierdista Iván Cepeda enfrenta al ultraderechista Abelardo de la Espriella, favorito en las encuestas

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Entre fuertes medidas de seguridad por temor a la violencia armada, Colombia elegirá este domingo a su nuevo presidente en un balotaje histórico entre dos modelos ideológicos y económicos enfrentados.

El favorito Abelardo de la Espriella, un “outsider” de ultraderecha que busca emular al presidente salvadoreño Nayib Bukele con su política de “mano dura”, se enfrenta al heredero del presidente Gustavo Petro, el senador izquierdista Iván Cepeda.

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La mayoría de las encuestas, divulgadas en los últimos días, auguran un claro triunfo de De la Espriella, postulante respaldado por Donald Trump, con una ventaja de entre tres a siete puntos. Solo Celag Data vaticinó una victoria del candidato del Pacto Histórico por muy escaso margen en un escenario de empate técnico.

“La muerte anunciada, como decía (Gabriel) García Márquez, indica que va a ganar Abelardo por una diferencia tan considerable como para invalidar reclamos por fraude, que ha sido el único argumento que en primera vuelta manejaron Petro y su candidato Cepeda como reacción” a su inesperada derrota, dijo a TN el asesor y analista argentino Ángel Beccassino, considerado un verdadero “gurú” de las campañas electorales en Colombia.

En la primera ronda del 31 de mayo, el candidato del partido ultraderechista Defensores de la Patria ganó con alrededor de tres puntos de ventaja (43% a 40%) sobre Cepeda.

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La Constitución colombiana prohíbe la reelección consecutiva. Por ello Petro no pudo ser el candidato natural de la izquierda. El ganador asumirá el gobierno el 7 de agosto por los próximos cuatro años (2026-2030) .

Inseguridad y desafíos

Más de 41 millones de colombianos están habilitados para votar en un clima crispado por una ola de violencia vinculada a la guerrilla y el narcotráfico que sacude el país desde hace tiempo y que incluyó el asesinato de un precandidato presidencial el año pasado.

El gobierno estima que 27.000 hombres están hoy en armas en 16 zonas en disputa territorial entre las disidencias de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), el Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), grupos paramilitares y organizaciones criminales y del narcotráfico.

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En la primera vuelta de las elecciones se desplegaron 248.000 policías y militares para custodiar el proceso electoral. Se prevé ahora un escenario similar.

La violencia endémica que enfrenta el país desde hace décadas será sin dudas uno de los principales desafíos del nuevo presidente, además de afrontar un pronunciado déficit fiscal del 7% del PBI y una crisis sanitaria que puso en jaque al sistema de salud.

Ivan Cepeda, candidato del Pacto Histórico (Foto: REUTERS/Sergio Acero)

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Dos estilos opuestos

En ese marco, De la Espriella y Cepeda no solo representan dos modelos ideológicos enfrentados. También dos estilos opuestos.

El candidato ultraderechista, apodado “El Tigre” se ha mostrado en campaña descontracturado. Así, ha subido a sus redes sociales videos en los que se lo ve haciendo flexiones de brazos con su hija a cuestas, tocando el piano, bailando con su esposa o hasta cantando ópera.

Por el contrario, Cepeda muestra un estilo sobrio, alejado de los discursos incendiarios de Petro, aunque en las últimas semanas buscó confrontar con su rival y lo acusó de poner en peligro la democracia y la soberanía nacional.

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Beccassino, quien ha asesorado a varios candidatos presidenciales, entre ellos al propio Petro, dijo que la campaña de De la Espriella superó a la de Cepeda.

“La campaña de Cepeda es muy floja frente a una profesional. De la Espriella repitió un guión que ha funcionado en otros países, comenzando por Argentina (con Javier Milei) y que sobresalió como espectáculo en unas elecciones grises”, indicó.

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Liberal en lo económico, De la Espriella promete convertirse en el “Bukele colombiano”. No solo imita sus poses, su corte de pelo y su barba. También su discurso de mano dura. Así, promete bombardear a los grupos armados ilegales y criminales que azotan el país y construir megacárceles.

Abelardo De La Espriella busca la presidencia de Colombia (Foto: REUTERS/Cesar Quiroz)

Abelardo De La Espriella busca la presidencia de Colombia (Foto: REUTERS/Cesar Quiroz)

Por su lado, Cepeda defiende el modelo de Petro con una fuerte influencia estatal y políticas sociales. Su histórica actuación en el campo de los derechos humanos lo convirtieron en un político de prestigio en sectores progresistas de la sociedad colombiana.

Además, como Petro, apuesta al diálogo con los grupos armados para pacificar el país.

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Sin embargo, los sondeos lo muestran en una posición de desventaja. De la Espriella no solo parte de una elevada base electoral alcanzada en la primera vuelta con el 43% de respaldo.

La tercera candidata más votada, Paloma Valencia, del Centro Democrático (derecha tradicional), logró alrededor del 6% de respaldo y llamó a votar por De la Espriella.

Admirador de Bukele, Milei y Trump, otro “outsider” se encamina a asumir el poder en un país de la región.

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