S8 Ep1108: Electoral Shifts Toward U.S. Cooperation in Peru and Colombia. Evan Ellis. Keiko Fujimori in Peru and Abelardo de la Espriella in Colombia have secured victories, pledging to join U.S.-led regional security coalitions. Both leaders inherit nations plagued
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🗓️ 9 July 2026
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Electoral Shifts Toward U.S. Cooperation in Peru and Colombia. Evan Ellis. Keiko Fujimori in Peru and Abelardo de la Espriella in Colombia have secured victories, pledging to join U.S.-led regional security coalitions. Both leaders inherit nations plagued by record-high coca production and expanded criminal groups. Their success is viewed as critical for regional stability and counter-cartel efforts in the Americas. (6)
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| 0:25.6 | This is a high risk investment. Professor Evan Ellis is here. |
| 0:51.4 | Two elections that were at risk and now look to be solved, look to be. |
| 0:57.4 | Peru, Sanchez, the opposition concedes. |
| 1:02.6 | Fuji Mora is now the elected president of Peru. |
| 1:07.7 | De La Esprria in Colombia asserts himself by appointing more cabinet members and looks to be in charge at the microphone. |
| 1:16.0 | Have I overstated the condition in Peru and Colombia, professor? |
| 1:20.5 | No, you have it, John. |
| 1:21.8 | In both cases, you have good news and bad news. |
| 1:25.2 | Of course, with Peru and Colombia, you now have, by latest count, |
| 1:29.2 | you know, 12 nations through elections who have elected governments that have an interest |
| 1:35.3 | in cooperating strongly and more with the United States. Keiko Fujimori's government takes power |
| 1:42.1 | on July 28th. Again, she has recently indicated Peru's desire to add itself to the shield of the America's coalition and probably the America's counter-cartel project to fight against organized crime. Certainly in Peru, you have a lot of problems in that regard. You've had with high amounts of narco-trafficking production in the countryside as well as illegal mining activities throughout the country and then the laundering of that money in major urban areas, which has caused things like extortions to shoot up in Peru as well as a very high, you know, homicide rate and in other difficulties. So with that |
| 2:21.5 | legacy of corruption, other difficulties, a lot for Keko to tackle, but she will have at least a |
| 2:29.8 | plurality of her party of force of Popolaro in both houses of the new bicameral Peruvian Congress. |
| 2:36.3 | Similar challenges in Colombia, again, a country that had deteriorated remarkably, in my judgment, under President Petro. |
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