Posted on 09/04/2026 11:50:42 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
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.
“I promised to confront terrorism without hesitation and I’m keeping that promise,” the far-right politician wrote above the video. “I did not come to play nice with murderers, extortionists and child recruiters. I came to defeat them … Long live Christ the king!”
Celebrating the military operation in the Colombian Amazon during which the 23 alleged terrorists were killed, De La Espriella declared: “We are utterly determined to destroy you, who are a cancer.”
The body bag footage, set to a stirring Hollywood-style score, was condemned by human rights activists and the president’s political opponents.
Iván Cepeda, the leftwing candidate beaten by De La Espriella in June’s election, wrote on X: “He strolls among the bags with the corpses. He nearly treads on them with contempt. He calls himself a Christian but in reality he’s an unscrupulous being lacking the slightest sense of humanity.
The leftwing lawmaker Daniel Monroy accused the president of “necropolitics”. He wrote: “This is one of the most bizarre things we’ve seen. Strolling among the dead, while invoking the name of God, just to justify an unnecessary spectacle...”
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The wrapper would look even better with a hammer and sickle logo.
He ordered strikes on Aug 31 on FARC guerrilla camps near the Venezuelan border … some FARC kids got killed in the process so the leftwing nuts are in a frenzy.
They never ask why FARC keeps their kids in their FARC training camps in the first place. Doh!
This act by FARC was much more disgusting:
Bus blast in Colombia kills 13 amid rising violence
France 24 ^ | 26/4/26 | Lea Hurel
Posted on 4/26/2026, 9:00:05 AM by Eleutheria5
Narrated video embedded
An explosive device killed 13 people traveling on a bus in southwestern Colombia on Saturday, an attack the country’s army chief described as a “terrorist act” that also left at least 38 injured as violence linked to drug trafficking in the region escalates. ...
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That’s funny, I don’t feel any disgust. Anyone else?
They were all bad.
Disgust from who - leftist scum like the Manchester Guardian?
I think its glorious. More dead leftists please.
Narcos
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