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Donald Trump’s endorsement of Colombian presidential candidate Abelardo has added a new twist to an already polarized runoff campaign.

One built his fortune defending the accused; the other built his career avenging the dead. Both ask voters to trust their "professional" ties.

Colombia's runoff pits a pro-business outsider against a Bulgaria-educated neo-Marxist Petro ally — with petroleum, healthcare, and investment sectors watching closely.

Abelardo de la Espriella led Colombia's first round with 43.7%; he faces leftist senator Iván Cepeda in a June 21 runoff.

Colombia's May 31 election pits three candidates with opposite records on oil, investment, security, and foreign policy.

Colombian President Iván Duque lauded the extradition of Saab, calling it a “triumph in the fight against drug trafficking, money laundering and corruption led by the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro.”

The operation was allegedly masterminded by a Nigerian PR firm and a British nonprofit called Digital Good Governance for Africa that paid Nigerian Twitter trolls to tweet support for Alex Saab in an attempt to influence the judicial process in Cape Verde and broader public opinion.

Colombia's Vice President Marta Lucia Ramirez filed criminal charges against investigative journalist & British citizen Jeremy McDermott after he reported on a business deal between the Vice President's husband and alleged narcotrafficker and paramilitary leader Guillermo León...