Immediate alliance: Abelardo de la Espriella spoke with Donald Trump after winning the presidency

By Agustin Miller

The lights of the campaign bunker in Barranquilla had not yet gone out and the echoes of the vallenatos continued to reverberate in the street when the president-elect's cell phone began to vibrate with an international prefix. The pre-count of the National Registry had just consolidated 99.98% of the tables, ratifying a pinpoint victory over Iván Cepeda. In the midst of that whirlwind of hugs and tears of relief from his team, Abelardo de la Espriella spoke directly with the North American president Donald Trump, sealing a drastic and immediate change of course in the geopolitics of the region.

The contact, which lasted approximately seven minutes as revealed by direct campaign sources to the media, served to reactivate diplomatic channels that had remained frozen or under constant friction during Gustavo Petro's administration. Trump, happy with the return of the right to the Nariño Palace, did not hide his pleasure at the result of the polls and took advantage of the fluidity of the call to extend a formal invitation to the new Colombian president to visit the White House before his inauguration on August 7.

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The details of the call where Abelardo de la Espriella spoke with the White House

The confirmation of the telephone dialogue came from the Cordoba lawyer's own voice during a special live broadcast, where he was flanked by his vice-presidential formula, the economist José Manuel Restrepo. Before thousands of connected users celebrating the official data of the polls, Abelardo de la Espriella spoke about the congratulations that began to arrive from abroad, including a greeting from the chief of staff of the Italian presidency and, as a priority, the explicit support of Washington.

“We are grateful to God for this miracle that has worked in the midst of so many complex situations, the rifle vote, the purchase of votes and the campaign that the President of the Republic carried out distributing contracts,” launched the leader of Defenders of the Homeland in front of the microphones, making it clear that the political transition will not be free of strong discursive intersections with the outgoing government.

During the conversation, the US president expressly asked De la Espriella to concentrate the efforts of his future cabinet on three pillars that make up the obsession of the White House agenda: direct combat against organized crime structures, strengthening internal security and strict control over the flow of illegal migration that crosses the continent. From Washington they attribute the success at the polls to the enormous ideological coincidence between the proposals of the Colombian program 'Patria Milagro' and the firm-handed policies promoted by the Republican administration.

Marco Rubio's support for the agenda of the new president-elect

Trump's call was not the only chess move on the international board overnight Sunday. Minutes before that communication, also Abelardo de la Espriella spoke with the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, who was in charge of making the North American support official through a publication on his profile on the social network

The head of US diplomacy explained that the future bilateral management will focus on ending the migration crisis and strengthening commercial ties, a relief for local economic unions that had been demanding legal stability. The harmony between both leaders was demonstrated by Rubio's previous gestures in his country's Congress, such as support for immigration pressure measures on figures of the regional left. "Colombia's best days are yet to come," the US official concluded, a phrase that those around De la Espriella read as a blank check for the demanding splicing process that begins tomorrow in Bogotá.