At the inaugural Shield of the Americas Summit this past March, Marco Rubio told the other Latin American and Caribbean countries gathered that if they worked together with us, they’d always have a friend in the United States. Here’s an example of that in action regarding the country that will soon be the newest member of the Shield, Colombia.
Just to recap, in June, the South American nation elected Abelardo de la Espriella as its next president. He defeated Ivan Cepeda, who was former socialist clown President Gustavo Petro’s handpicked successor. President de la Espriella is conservative and promises to be a hard-liner on crime, and while he’s only been in office a few weeks, he’s already proving to be a great leader, even in the wake of a deadly earthquake.
But like the United States, Colombia has its fair share of leftist loons who can’t accept that they lost an election, and one of them is named Viviana Marín. She’s currently the political secretary of the Communist Youth of Colombia (JUCO), a group connected to the Communist Party of Colombia.
In June, Marín was filmed calling for people to make Colombia “unlivable for Abelardo.” Sounds like a threat to me.
“What’s coming, comrades, is street protests, so buy some shoes because you’re going to be wearing them out,” she said.
She also said, “Tell the right wing, well, yes, we are a plague. And we are a plague that will come out into the streets every day of their lives to tell them: ‘No way, we’re here.'”
Normally, this wouldn’t be our problem. Every country has people like this, but Marín, it seems, is all about communism until she goes on vacation and enjoys spending her spare time in the United States. After she was filmed saying those things, photos of her in the snow in Chicago and hanging out in Florida went viral.
Hellbound and Down 