{"id":368428,"date":"2026-08-08T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/colombia-has-a-new-right-wing-president-what-changes-now-dw-news\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:00:30","slug":"colombia-has-a-new-right-wing-president-what-changes-now-dw-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/colombia-has-a-new-right-wing-president-what-changes-now-dw-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia has a new right-wing president. What changes now? | DW News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/hJC2hg6-sLM\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Colombia has a new right-wing president. What changes now? | DW News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hJC2hg6-sLM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Colombia has a new president \u2014 and a new political direction. Right-wing leader Abelardo de la Espriella has taken office after a closely fought election, promising to crack down on drug-related crime and bring greater stability to the country. His inauguration also highlighted a warming relationship with Washington, with the Trump administration planning a $1 billion security package for Colombia. What will de la Espriella\u2019s presidency mean for a deeply divided country? And how will Colombia\u2019s shift to the right reshape its relationship with the United States? We speak to Mariano Aguirre Ernst, researcher at the Barcelona Centre on International Affairs \u2014 and also with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung on Latin American and at the UK think tank Chatham House \u2014 for more.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro, Abelardo de la Espriella\u2019s inauguration<br \/>\n02:18 Just how right-wing is de la Espriella?<br \/>\n06:24 Colombia\u2019s opposition<br \/>\n10:56 Challenges facing the country<br \/>\n13:43 US-Colombia relations<\/p>\n<p>#dwnews <\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1 #dwnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombia has a new president \u2014 and a new political direction. Right-wing leader Abelardo de la Espriella has taken office after a closely fought election, promising to crack down on drug-related crime and bring greater stability to the country. His inauguration also highlighted a warming relationship with Washington, with the Trump administration planning a $1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":368429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-368428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Colombia has a new right-wing president. 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