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After four decades of fighting drugs, Colombia has become the world’s largest producer of cocaine, and the United States its main market. | Font: RAUL ARBOLEDA | Photographer: AFP

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USA ready to have an “open and honest conversation” about the war on drugs with the new president ColombiaGustavo Petro, who has proposed scrapping the strategy as he sees it as a failure, a delegation from Washington said Monday.

“I think the PresidentPetro) wants to do is to have the world. It’s the same interest USA. This is a common space for open and honest conversation,” Democratic Congressman Gregory Meeks said at a press conference.

Mix is ​​part of the US delegation that attended the inauguration of the first left-wing US president. Colombiaand who leads Samantha PowerHead of the Agency for USA for development (You said).

During his inaugural address, Petro called for “a new international convention that recognizes that the war on drugs has failed.”

Mix he said he was “impressed” by the new president’s speech, which also referred to the death of a million Hispanics in the fight against drugs and the tens of thousands of Americans who die each year from overdoses.

“We agreed to talk and discuss the need to end the violence that was discussed during the tenure,” a state spokesman said. New York.

After four decades of fighting drugs, Colombia has become the world’s largest producer of cocaine, and the United States its main market.

Thanks to drug resources, several armed organizations continue to operate in Colombia.

“There are understandable differences that we continue to talk about and discuss (…) we agreed that drug trafficking has had a devastating impact on communities both in Colombia how in USA”, – said the person in charge of Usaid.

At the end of the meeting this Monday with Petro and vice president France MarquezPower emphasized in his tweet the “urgent need for climate change action” and the “common commitment to advance the peace process” that disarmed the guerrillas in 2017. FARC.

Left-wing president proposes to suspend extradition to USA drug dealers carrying out “peaceful liquidation” of business. However, he acknowledges that this depends on “negotiations” with whichever country has not spoken out against the initiative.

(AFP)

Source: RPP

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