Colombia's President Abelardo de la Espriella salutes during the change of command ceremony at the Jose Maria Cordova Military School in Bogota on August 26, 2026. Colombia's new hard-right government announced on August 25, 2026, plans to classify guerrilla fighters, drug traffickers and other criminal groups as "terrorists." (Credit: Photo by Raul ARBOLEDA / AFP via Getty Images)
Nineteen days into his term, Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella has reshuffled a wide slice of the state bureaucracy and opened a migration crackdown that is rattling Venezuelan households on both sides of the Caribbean, including thousands of families with relatives in South Florida.
A single-day reshuffle across 15 agencies
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