Footage provokes outrage, as bellicose and performative far-right politics continue to spread across Americas
Colombia’s hardline president, Abelardo De La Espriella, has provoked outrage after posting a social media video in which he strides through rows of white body bags that he said 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.
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This article was originally published by The Guardian and written by Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro.
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