{"id":314915,"date":"2026-06-21T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314915\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:04:08","slug":"this-week-in-south-florida-colombias-presidential-runoff-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314915\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in South Florida: Colombia\u2019s presidential runoff election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 21, 2026 at 12:29 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. \u2014 Colombian voters both at home and abroad, including here in South Florida, are deciding which political direction their country will turn and charting the course of relations with the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Voting began Sunday in the presidential runoff election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Iv\u00e1n Cepeda is the left-leaning senator from the same party as current, term-limited President Gustavo Petro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Abelardo de la Espriella is the conservative, Trump-aligned candidate \u2014 a political newcomer who gained traction with voters as a law-and-order candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News reporters Cody Weddle and Jeff Derderian got reaction from voters both in Bogot\u00e1 and here in South Florida, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Watch their reports in the video above.<\/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=\"Glenna Milberg\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/099bf4a7-492f-4b89-a5.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Glenna Milberg<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Emmy award-winning journalist Glenna Milberg joined Local 10 News in September 1999. She hosts &#8220;This Week in South Florida&#8221;, South Florida\u2019s highest-rated, most-watched public affairs program, anchors Local 10 World News Weekends, and covers South Florida&#8217;s top stories and big issues for Local 10 News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 21, 2026 at 12:29 PM PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. \u2014 Colombian voters both at home and abroad, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-314915","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\/314915","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=314915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}