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The first series of polls out following Sunday’s presidential election in Colombia showed on Wednesday that much of the country is uniting against far-left candidate Gustavo Petro for next month’s runoff, backing elderly outsider businessman Rodolfo Hernández.

The last-minute surge of outsider candidate Rodolfo Hernández in the Colombian presidential race suggest he could leap into second place in Sunday’s election, guaranteeing a place in a runoff, likely against far-left candidate Gustavo Petro.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Colombian citizens will head to the polls on Sunday, May 29, to choose who will be their nation’s president for the next four years.

Colombian officials on Thursday accused members of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) – the two largest communist terrorist groups in the country – of opening fire at a Children’s Day event on Wednesday hosting 3,000 children.

Joe Biden spoke about his migration expansion plan during a visit with Colombian President Iván Duque Márquez, telling reporters he wanted to sign a declaration at the “Summit of Americas” in June in Los Angeles.

Colombian President Iván Duque expressed discomfort on Monday with the Biden administration’s outreach to Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, whose gas President Joe Biden reportedly covets to alleviate shortages due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Abortion giant Planned Parenthood has called for celebration after Colombia’s high court legalized abortion Monday, the latest Latin American country to decriminalize the practice.

Upon assuming the presidency, Joe Biden promised the world, “America is back,” building on his campaign claims that President Donald Trump had severely damaged relations with the country’s allies.

President Joe Biden is nearing the end of his first year in office – a meaningful milestone after a year of global chaos spurred on by incoherent and sometimes seemingly deliberately counterproductive policies.

President Joe Biden’s decision to remove the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) from the U.S. list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations this week will help still-active guerrilla fighters “fill the ranks,” the executive director of the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS), Joseph Humire, told Breitbart News this week.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Tuesday that the U.S. would remove the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) – a Marxist terrorist group with a record of over 50 years of mass killings, rape, kidnappings, and child abuse, among other crimes – from its list of designated terrorist groups.

Anonymous alleged “U.S. and congressional officials” told the Wall Street Journal this week that President Joe Biden is planning to remove the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a nearly 60-year-old terrorist organization responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, from America’s list of designated foreign terrorist groups.

Juan Guillermo Zuluaga, the governor of central Colombia’s Meta region, told reporters on Tuesday he survived two attempts on his life — the first by a sniper and the second via explosive device — within a 24-hour period from Sunday to Monday, Voice of America (VOA) reported.

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez complained on Wednesday that funds for coronavirus relief from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have been frozen because the United States refuses to recognize the full legitimacy of dictator Nicolas Maduro’s government.

Cliff Sims, singer-songwriter and former communications advisor to former President Donald Trump, joined Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow to discuss his latest song, “U, Ur Mom, & Me,” which tells the story of he and his wife’s adoption of a 3-year-old boy from an orphanage in Colombia.

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Tuesday that the global public health agency is monitoring a new COVID-19 variant referred to as “Mu”, first identified in Colombia at the beginning of this year. 

Colombia and Panama agreed to limit the flow of U.S.-bound migrants from various continents transiting through their territory to 650 per day.

Senior U.S. officials made a surprise visit to Mexico Tuesday to discuss bilateral cooperation on reducing illegal migrants crossing into the U.S. in record numbers.

The Miami Herald on Sunday reported that Haitian President Jovenel Moise placed frantic calls to the National Police ten minutes before he was gunned down by a commando squad in his home, but neither the police nor the president’s own security detail answered.

Some Colombian nationals arrested for suspected involvement in the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moise this month received U.S. government-funded military training, Voice of America reported on Friday.

A former police officer turned one of Haiti’s most powerful gang bosses, Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, accused an “international conspiracy against the Haitian people” this weekend of resulting in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in his home last week.

Police in Haiti said on Friday that most members of the “commando squad” sent to assassinate President Jovenel Moise on Wednesday have been killed or taken into custody.

A group of at least 50 locals in Cali, Colombia, organized a “paint-a-thon” campaign on Sunday to clean up far-left, anti-police graffiti and murals throughout the city.

The Colombian Defense Ministry revealed Monday that it had obtained intelligence linking the attempted shoot-down of an Air Force helicopter carrying President Iván Duque last week to the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

Fishermen on the Gulf of Morrosquillo in Colombia have rescued several groups of Bangladeshi nationals, all apparently shipwrecked after their makeshift vessel en route north collapsed, Colombian media reported Wednesday.

Colombia’s Health Ministry reported 586 deaths attributed to Chinese coronavirus on Sunday, a national record since the pandemic began, and 28,519 new cases of infection.

Colombia’s constitutional court ruled last month that Colombian Vice President Marta Ramirez violated the secular nation’s separation of church and state by attempting to consecrate Colombia to the Virgin Mary via social media posts, Bitter Winter reported Wednesday.

Locals in Barranquilla, Colombia, responded to leftist riots in their neighborhood by taking the streets with machetes on Tuesday, Colombian media and citizen journalists revealed.

At least four of Colombia’s largest cities – including its capital, Bogotá – hosted marches attracting thousands of people on Sunday in support of the nation’s police and opposing leftist roadblocks and riots allegedly against police brutality.

A mob of “hooded vandals” burned down the Palace of Justice, a courthouse and government office building, the Tuluá, western Colombia, on Tuesday.

In late April, Colombia watched as peaceful demonstrations against an ill-timed tax reform turned violent. The ensuing riots spanned several weeks and engulfed almost every major city in the country.

Pope Francis has insisted on the rights to peaceful protest, as thousands of Colombians continue marching against government mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic and proposals of tax hikes.

Members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a communist terrorist organization, announced the death of senior member “Jesús Santrich” on Tuesday.

A report by the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS), a national security think tank, revealed evidence Tuesday of extensive foreign influence in the ongoing leftist riots in Colombia, including the spread of misinformation by Asian social media accounts and infiltration by Venezuela’s socialist regime.

Conservative lawmakers in Colombia have found renewed interest in a proposal to significantly expand gun rights for civilians in light of a left-wing terrorism campaign entering its third week, the nation’s El Tiempo reported on Sunday.

Representatives of alleged youth protesters booed the mayor of Cali, Colombia, out of scheduled negotiations aimed at ending leftist blockades and violent riots in the city Thursday.