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Gustavo Petro invites Colombian coca growers to discuss transition to a legal economy

“I think it’s a suggestive and interesting idea to have this done in Catatumbo” | Font: EFE/ reference | Photographer: Charles Ortega

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the president Colombia, Gustavo Petroinvited coca producers this Friday to discuss the transition to a legal economy with the government during a visit to the region with the largest drug harvest in the world.

“It seems to me a suggestive, interesting idea that this should be carried out in Catatumbo”, border region with Venezuela, “the first gathering of coca farmers,” said Petro in a speech at the municipality Tarra (East).

Catatumbo This is the region with the largest number of hectares of coca in the world (40 000), at the last count UN2020, and one of the largest drug trafficking routes.

The conclusions of the coca growers at this meeting underlined PetroThey will show the government “the roads, the public policy, the ways that allow a peasant family that today has dedicated itself to coca leaves (…) to replace it with activity. [legal] which guarantees a better quality of life.”

However, the President did not name the date of this meeting.

promises of change

Since before the world’s largest cocaine producer came to power, Petro expressed its intention to change the punitive approach to the producers of the main product of this drug, whom it considers victims.

During this Friday’s event, the first leftist president Colombia claimed to be the only boss Condition who have traveled to this region where armed groups such as guerrillas THEN they impose their law and dominate this illegal economy.

On Wednesday, unidentified persons opened fire on a van that was part of the avant-garde. Petroabout 46 km from the border.

“Here we return to the regional dialogue,” Petro concluded, suggesting that the local authorities, the Catholic Church and the peasants organize “as soon as possible” the “first regional dialogue in Catatumbo.”

(AFP)

Source: RPP

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