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Rubio jokes about De la Espriella: “He went crazy and decided to become president”

From ABC Color · () Spanish

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  • Marco Rubio said he had known Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella for years, including from a wedding in Florida where they sat at the same table.
  • Rubio joked that De la Espriella “went crazy” by entering politics and becoming president.
  • He praised the Colombian leader as energetic, visionary and brave while discussing the country’s political and post-earthquake challenges.

Marco Rubio joked about the unlikely path of Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella, saying the man he had known for years “went crazy” by entering politics and becoming president.

Speaking to reporters in Barranquilla after meeting De la Espriella, the U.S. secretary of state recalled that the two men had known each other before the Colombian became president. They had even sat at the same table at a wedding in Florida.

It is unusual to travel to a country and meet a head of state and a president whom you have already known for years, before he was president, before he discovered politics.

· Marco RubioHe described his longstanding personal relationship with Colombia’s president.

“It is unusual to travel to a country and meet a head of state and a president whom you have already known for years, before he was president, before he discovered politics,” Rubio said.

He went crazy and decided to become president, decided to become a politician.

· Marco RubioHe joked about De la Espriella’s entry into politics.

Rubio described De la Espriella, a wealthy right-wing lawyer who took office a month ago, as “an energetic man, a man of vision” and “brave.” He said the president was confronting a complex situation inherited from the previous administration of leftist Gustavo Petro, as well as the devastation caused by the magnitude 7.4 earthquake on August 10.

The secretary of state also welcomed the possibility of rebuilding relations between the United States and Colombia. He said those ties were natural because of the countries’ personal, cultural and economic links.

An energetic man, a man of vision.

· Marco RubioHe praised De la Espriella after their meeting.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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