Politics
Abelardo de la Espriella, a right-leaning ally of Donald Trump, was sworn in as Colombia's new president, pledging a hardline crackdown on guerrilla groups and drug trafficking. The United States pledged $1 billion in security aid to Colombia alongside the inauguration. Outgoing president Petro did not attend the ceremony and called for protests, alleging election fraud without evidence, while de la Espriella, a former lawyer who represented drug traffickers and paramilitaries, also outlined plans for budget cuts.
Left-leaning outlets (Le Monde, The Guardian) label de la Espriella explicitly as 'far-right,' emphasizing austerity measures (budget cuts, shrinking the state by up to 40%), a Catholic-grounded 'moral reconstruction' agenda, and his hardline security pledges, framing the transition in more ideologically loaded terms than the center coverage.
Center outlets (France 24, BBC, DW) frame the inauguration primarily as a factual geopolitical realignment: a Trump-backed, right-wing populist replacing left-wing Petro, cementing a US-Colombia security partnership with the $1bn aid package, while noting his controversial background as a lawyer for drug traffickers and paramilitaries and warning that his confrontational style could deepen polarization.
The single right-leaning sample (Breitbart) is a brief, minimal item that labels de la Espriella 'conservative' rather than far-right or right-wing populist, and highlights a positive framing device (citing Thomas Jefferson) without the critical context on his legal career or polarizing style found elsewhere; the article body is too sparse to draw broader conclusions about R-spectrum framing.