CORAL GABLES, Fla. \u2014 Registered voters in Colombia and around the world will soon select one of two candidates with opposing political ideologies to be their next president. <\/p>\n
Newcomer Abelardo de la Espriella<\/a>, a right-wing supporter of Donald Trump, and Iv\u00e1n Cepeda<\/a>, a leftist and ally of outgoing President Gustavo Petro<\/a>, moved forward after a tense election on May 31<\/a>.<\/p>\n In Coral Gables, early voting will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. from June 15-20 at the University of Miami\u2019s Watsco Center<\/a>, at 1245 Dauer Drive \u2014 and not at the consulate<\/a> at 280 Aragon Ave.<\/p>\n Coral Gables Police Chief Edward James Hudak, Jr., said on Thursday that the decision to avoid the consulate<\/a> prioritized security, while the city was already dealing with high traffic during the FIFA World Cup. <\/p>\n Election Day is on June 21, and officials expect a high turnout. Voters will have assigned precincts available in a searchable database that requires the number of the Colombian identification, or \u201ccedula.\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n In South Florida, there will be six precincts. Three will be in Miami-Dade County and three in Broward and Palm Beach counties. <\/p>\n Aside from the new one in Coral Gables, there will be one at the main gymnasium<\/a> of the Miami Dade College campus, at 11011 SW 104 St., in Kendall, and one at the Milander Center<\/a>, at 4800 Palm Ave., in Hialeah. <\/p>\n The voting precincts in Broward will be at Coral Springs High School<\/a>, 7201 West Sample Road, and in the gymnasium of Cypress Bay High School, at 18600 Vista Park Boulevard, in Weston. <\/p>\n The precinct in Palm Beach will be at the Public Safety Conference Center at the Palm Beach State College at 4200 South Congress Ave.<\/p>\n In Florida, the consulate also reported that there will be a new precinct at the Strobes Event Center, at 3251 17 St., in Sarasota. <\/p>\n For more information from the Colombian consulate of Miami, visit this page<\/a>. For more information from the Embassy of Colombia in the U.S., visit this page<\/a>. <\/p>\n Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORAL GABLES, Fla. \u2014 Registered voters in Colombia and around the world will soon select one of two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-304678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}