Guardian Australia

Colombian far-right candidate is latest Trumpian Latin American to ride anti-incumbent wave

Abelardo de la Espriella, promising an iron-fist approach to crime, leads polls in country’s presidential runoff election Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Abelardo de la Espriella, the far-right lawyer who is leading the polls ahead of Colombia ’s presidential runoff election, has marketed his rum, wine and menswear brands – as well as his novels and albums on which he croons popular classics – under the label “De la Espriella Style”. But his shift from business suits to T-shirts, baseball caps and a meticulously trimmed beard suggest the influence of another style: that of El Salvador’s populist autocrat Nayib Bukele. Continue reading...