{"id":55094,"date":"2026-06-22T10:09:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/trump-backed-political-outsider-wins-colombia-election-initial-count-shows\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:09:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:09:31","slug":"trump-backed-political-outsider-wins-colombia-election-initial-count-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/trump-backed-political-outsider-wins-colombia-election-initial-count-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-backed political outsider wins Colombia election, initial count shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">As a lawyer his clients included Alex Saab, an ally of Venezuela&#8217;s ousted president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, who faces US charges of money laundering, and David Murcia Guzman, one of Colombia&#8217;s biggest fraudsters. He has said this was part of his job as a defence lawyer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/clye4ky2yzpo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a lawyer his clients included Alex Saab, an ally of Venezuela&#8217;s ousted president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, who faces US charges of money laundering, and David Murcia Guzman, one of Colombia&#8217;s biggest fraudsters. He has said this was part of his job as a defence lawyer. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55096,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55094\/revisions\/55096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}