Miami – Trump administration Added on Monday Colombia The list of countries that failed to cooperate in the drug war for the first time in nearly 30 years is a condemnation of traditional American allies, reflecting the recent surge in cocaine production and in White House and the country’s left-wing president.
Even if it is sure Colombia Failure to comply with its international corporate obligations, Trump administration Given the sanctions will trigger significant aid for reasons that U.S. national interests are crucial.
But it is an important step against one of the U.S.’s most determined allies in Latin America, which analysts say could hurt the economy and further hinder efforts to restore rural security.
President Gustavo Petro said at a televised cabinet meeting on Monday that there were several times when whiskey killed more people than cocaine killed more people. Colombia The lives of “dozens of police officers, soldiers and regular citizens were sacrificed to try to stop cocaine” and were punished.
“What we’ve been doing has nothing to do with the people of Colombia,” he said of the anti-magazine efforts in the United States. “It’s about stopping North American society from smearing its nose.”
Last time added in the United States Colombia In 1997, the country’s cartels (through violence and threats of money) poisoned most of the country’s institutions, and in 1997, through a process called anatomy, on the list.
“Unverification is a blunt tool, a huge stimulus in bilateral relations, it goes far beyond drug problems and becomes more difficult in any number of areas,” said Adam Isacson, a security researcher at the Washington office in Washington, Washington, Latin America. “That’s why it’s rarely used.”
Then-President Ernesto Samper faces credible charges of accepting illegal campaign donations from the now-extinct Cali Cartel and discovering that the plane he intended to use for New York to take part in UN General Assembly courses was carrying 4 kilograms of heroin.
After Smaper left the office, a significant turnaround began. Continuous U.S. Government – Republican and Democrats – Provides foreign aid to billions of dollars Colombia To eliminate illegal Coca-Cola, armed forces have been strengthened in the fight against drug-fueled rebels and provide economic alternatives to poor farmers with the lowest cocaine industry.
This cooperation was a rare foreign policy success in Latin America, and began to collapse after the suspension of glyphosate Coca-Cola Tanaka, which was phased out a decade ago. Follow a Colombia The Supreme Court ruled that the program funded by the United States could be harmful to the environment and farmers.
The 2016 Peace Agreement and the Armed Forces of Revolution ColombiaThe largest rebel group in the United States is also known as the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces Colombia Withdrawing the punitive policy of the United States spraying orange agents during the Vietnam War, it is conducive to national construction, rural development and voluntary crop replacement.
Since then, cocaine production has soared. The latest report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says that over the past decade, the basic component of cocaine has reached almost 253,000 hectares of land in the past decade. That’s almost three times that of New York City.
In addition to production, drug seizures have soared to 654 metric tons so far this year. Colombia Last year, it caught a record 884 metric tons.
But unlike past governments, under Pietro, the manual elimination of Coca-Cola has slowed down, with almost less than 5,048 hectares this year – far below the 68,000 hectares uprooted in the last year of the conservative former term and well below the government’s own 30,000 hectares target.
Petro, a former rebel himself, also angered senior U.S. officials by denying U.S. extradition requests and criticizing senior U.S. officials Trump administration Immigrant repression and its efforts to combat drug trafficking in neighboring Venezuela.
“Under my management, Colombia Petro did not cooperate in the assassination after the U.S. military launched a fatal strike against a small Venezuelan ship in the Caribbean. ” Trump administration Said cocaine is being shipped to the United States
“fail Colombia “The performance of his drug control obligations in the past year is only dependent on his political leadership,” Trump said in a presidential memorandum submitted to Congress. Colombian The government has taken more aggressive actions to eliminate the production and trafficking of cocaine and trafficking of cocaine and possess those that produce, traffic and benefit from the production of cocaine, including bringing the leaders of the Colombian criminal organizations to justice by improving cooperation with the United States. ”
Under U.S. law, the president must identify each year countries that fail to fulfill their obligations under the international agreement agreement within the past 12 months.
also Colombiathis Trump administration Four other countries are listed – Afghanistan, Bolivia, Myanmar and Venezuela – among the 23 major drug transit or drug use countries that have failed to meet their international obligations. Except for Afghanistan White House Determining that the United States’ aid to these countries is crucial to national interests and therefore any potential sanctions will be retained.
Venezuela’s redesign is a country that has failed to adequately smuggle narcotics with neighboring countries Colombia This has led to two deadly strikes on Venezuelan boats in the backdrop of a major military accumulation in the Caribbean Sea. Trump administration Said cocaine is being shipped to the United States
“In Venezuela, prosecuted drug trafficker Nicolás Maduro leads one of the world’s largest cocaine trafficking networks, and the United States will continue to seek to bring Maduro and other members of the co-conspiratorship to justice for their criminal justice,” Trump said. “We will also target foreign terrorist organizations in Venezuela, such as Tren de Aragua, and remove them from our country. ”
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Suarez reported from Bogota, Colombia. Associated Press writer Manuel Rueda contributed to the report in Bogota.
