MissConstrue
@MissConstrue@mefi.social
Why, I remember when this was all just Arpanet. I'm over educated, opinionated, and quite possibly wrong about everything. Published author, banned comics publisher, ethicist, cranky old philosopher careered in information architecture. AKA: I contain multitudes. Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. Your life matters. End Colonialism. Free Palestine. Eat the Rich. Avatar: A crop of "The Letter" by Delphin Enjolras, against a background of prairie flowers.
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So, America's Trumpster Fire is spreading. This regime is the most aggressive cancer the world has ever known.
#Colombia held its presidential runoff on Sunday. The preliminary results show a razor-thin victory for Abelardo de la #Espriella, a far-right multimillionaire with no prior political experience, over left-wing Senator Iván #Cepeda, by a margin of 49.66% to 48.70%, in an election riddled with fraud allegations, in a country with a long and unambiguous history of American interference in its democratic processes.
The winner is a #US citizen who became naturalized in 2023, owns a $5.1 million home in Miami, ran businesses in Florida for years, is a registered #Republican, and voted for Donald Trump in 2024. He was openly endorsed by Trump, who celebrated his ‘BIG’ victory on Truth Social.
He has pledged to ‘disembowel the left,’ move Colombia’s embassy to #Jerusalem, and restore full diplomatic and military ties with #Israel.
People are not pleased.
https://thespectaclemag.substack.com/p/the-people-of-colombia-take-to-the
