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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All liberals, doesn’t matter the country are sissies.
The Left is paid by the cartels.
Good for him! He’s showing the guerrillas what’ll happen to them...just like we show videos of our blowing up drug boats.
Drug thugs look nice in white body bags.
Hey Ivan, your support for Columbian terrorists is exactly why you lost in the presidential elections.
At this rate you will lose again.
Naturally the left is on the side of the marxist narcoterrorists, just like they're on the side of the IRGC and the Chicoms and the Castros and all the world's other bad guys.
But I like this new president's style, and I'll bet the Colombian voters do too. They're getting what they voted for.
I agree, they look much better in a wrapper.
Tucker Carlson is outraged and disgusted!
We need to decorate a bunch of light poles in this country with terrorists from both at home and abroad.
The Guardian is a pathetic joke.
The DNC’s Hamas wing is very excited.
Every time I see a posting from the British press, I think of this scene from “Yes, Prime minister”:
Sir Humphrey: “The only way to understand the Press is to remember that they pander to their readers’ prejudices.”
Jim Hacker: “Don’t tell me about the Press. I know *exactly* who reads the papers:
“The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country;
“The Guardian is read by people who think they *ought* to run the country;
“The Times is read by the people who actually *do* run the country;
“The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country;
“The Financial Times is read by people who *own* the country;
“The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by *another* country;
“And The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it *is*.”
Sir Humphrey: “Oh, and Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?”
Bernard Woolley: “Sun readers don’t care who runs the country as long as she’s got big tits.”
Been going on ever since photography was created. Sheriffs like to display the game that they bagged.
Nice picture! I’d say they should be stuffed and mounted, but the leftists would start worshipping them and making their children look like them.
They look like Tamales.
😃
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