{"id":314842,"date":"2026-06-21T14:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314842\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T14:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:57:08","slug":"polls-open-for-colombia-runoff-election-including-in-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314842\/","title":{"rendered":"Polls open for Colombia runoff election, including in South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 21, 2026 at 10:28 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Polls opened on Sunday for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/politics\/2026\/06\/20\/colombians-head-to-the-polls-during-polarized-runoff-presidential-election\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/politics\/2026\/06\/20\/colombians-head-to-the-polls-during-polarized-runoff-presidential-election\/\">Colombian presidential runoff election<\/a>, with polling locations open in South Florida for the Colombian diaspora to cast their ballots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Voters have the choice between liberal candidate Iv\u00e1n Cepeda, endorsed by sitting President Gustavo Petro, and right-winger Abelardo de la Espriella, who has the backing of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">De la Espriella also has the backing of several conservative elected officials in South Florida, who turned a \u201cget out the vote\u201d rally using official resources into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/politics\/2026\/06\/19\/south-florida-colombians-urged-to-vote-in-presidential-runoff-election\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/politics\/2026\/06\/19\/south-florida-colombians-urged-to-vote-in-presidential-runoff-election\/\">what sounded like a rally<\/a> for the candidate on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Polling locations in South Florida included Miami Dade College\u2019s Kendall Campus, the Milander Center in Hialeah and Cypress Bay High School in Weston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Polls are open until 4 p.m. Sunday, with about 130,000 people in South Florida eligible to vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For information about the precincts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.registraduria.gov.co\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.registraduria.gov.co\/\" target=\"_blank\">visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For information about the election\u2019s results, <a href=\"https:\/\/resultados.registraduria.gov.co\/v2\/espera\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/resultados.registraduria.gov.co\/v2\/espera\" target=\"_blank\">visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jeff  Derderian \" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/MSLA5GVTO5AXZLY4CC5BTN7M.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Jeff Derderian <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Jeff Derderian is an Emmy Award-winning reporter with more than two decades of experience uncovering the truth and holding the powerful accountable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 21, 2026 at 10:28 AM MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Polls opened on Sunday for the Colombian presidential&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-314842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314842","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=314842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}