The country’s left-wing president is unpopular and beset by family scandals. According to a political analyst: “Right now, [he] is in damage-control mode trying to isolate the issue around his son. . . . A lot of people are saying ‘It’s impossible that [the president] didn’t know what his son was up to.’” The president promised not to interfere in the investigation. He wishes his son “luck and strength” and is hopeful that “these events forge his character.”
Of course, we’re talking about Colombia, where President Gustavo Petro’s son Nicolás was arrested on July 29 on money-laundering charges. But deadbeat first sons aren’t the only parallels between the U.S. and Latin America today. This July, more than 40 conservatives came together for the inaugural Carvalho Dialogue in Miami to discuss the regional threat of transnational organized crime as well as authoritarian socialism and political instability.
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