On the night of June 21, 2026, as Colombia’s preliminary vote count rolled in showing far-right candidate Abelardo De La Espriella ahead of left-wing Iván Cepeda by less than one percentage point, the narrowest margin in any Colombian presidential runoff in recorded history, something happened that most international outlets buried under boilerplate electoral procedure. Colombia’s outgoing President Gustavo Petro went on the record, in public, with a specific technical claim concerning IP addresses of multiple servers belonging to Colombia’s National Registry, which he maintained had been changed mid-count. He accused external actors of having used that access to write results directly into polling station fields and named the entity he holds responsible. Not a rogue hacker. Not Russia. Not a domestic cartel, but the State of Israel.

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