Colombian president posts video purporting to show 23 ‘neutralised’ guerrillas in body bags

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Colombian President Abelardo De La Espriella posted a video displaying 23 deceased guerrillas in body bags, asserting the government’s aggressive stance against illegal armed groups. The footage has sparked outrage amid rising far-right politics in the Americas.

Footage provokes outrage as bellicose and performative far-right politics continue to spread across Americas Colombia’s hardline president, Abelardo De La Espriella, has provoked outrage after posting a video on social media in which he strides through rows of white body bags that he says contained the corpses of 23 “neutralised” guerrillas. De La Espriella took power last month vowing “all-out war” against illegal armed groups and he published the footage on Thursday in an apparent attempt to show he was fulfilling that pledge. Continue reading...