By Kanishka SinghWASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration plans to provide $1 billion in security assistance to the government of Colombia’s new right-wing President Abelardo De La Espriella. • Colombia’s new president, who has promised a crackdown on crime and an economic revival, was sworn in on Friday. • The State Department said the Trump administration welcomed Colombia into the “Shield of the Americas,” ​a Trump-created military alliance of right-wing leaders pledging to fight drug trafficking. • Rights advocates, both in the U.S. and around the world, say such actions are illegal, imperial and amount to extrajudicial killings. • Trump had publicly feuded with former President Gustavo Petro, a former rebel and Colombia’s first leftist president, over a range of issues.