Trump Endorses Colombian Presidential Candidate De La Espriella

Reuters treats Trump’s endorsement in Colombia as a celebrity-style intrusion, as if any U.S. interest in the hemisphere is automatically suspect. That framing skips a basic reality: Latin American politics does not stay in Latin America. It shows up at our border, in our streets, and in our supply chains.

Conservatives are not asking Washington to pick presidents. We are asking for clear-eyed national security and hemispheric stability when cartels, China’s financing, and porous institutions pull the region in dangerous directions. An endorsement is not a coup. It is a signal about priorities.

The real question is whether Colombia’s next government will defend the rule of law, cooperate on counter-narcotics enforcement, and protect public trust. Those are legitimate American interests, and pretending otherwise is the convenient fiction.