New Conservative Boss In South America Obliterates Previous Socialist Foreign Policy

Talk about a foreign policy U-turn. Colombia’s Right-wing president-elect, Abelardo de la Espriella, is pulling off a massive diplomatic pivot: completely scrapping plans for an embassy in Ramallah and instead opening one in Jerusalem this August. The fiery conservative lawyer, nicknamed “El Tigre,” won the presidency in a razor-thin June runoff after promising to smash ...