De la Espriella says he won’t allow Colombia’s left to “destabilize democracy”

Colombia’s far-right President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella said that he won’t allow his country’s left to “destabilize democracy” through civil disobedience against his US citizenship. The civil disobedience announced by leftist opposition leader Ivan Cepeda “is nothing more than a euphemism for an attempt to destabilize democracy,” said De la Espriella. This so-called “civil disobedience” is nothing more than a euphemism for an attempt to destabilize democracy, and I will not allow it. Abelardo de la EspriellaAccording to De la Espriella, the left “combined all forms of struggle,” a term used by the now-defunct guerrilla group FARC to justify the violence used by the insurgents, “and lost.” Cepeda called on his followers to peaceful civil disobedience in response to the president-elect’s refusal to renounce his US citizenship.