Colombia's new President, Abelardo De La Espriella, is a nationalist lawyer promising economic revival and hardline security measures.

He portrayed himself as an anti-establishment saviour capable of reviving Colombia’s ailing economy. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Conservative political outsider Abelardo de la Espriella won a razor-thin lead in Colombia's runoff presidential election on Sunday, a result that will be challenged in the coming days by the ruling…

Colombians are heading to the polls this Sunday to elect a new president. The frontrunner is Abelardo de la Esperiella. He has vowed to return to full-scale military confrontation with armed groups.…