U.S. anti-drug policies caused Latin American 'genocide': Colombia's Gustavo Petro
Agence France-Presse
March 2, 2024 8:02AM ET
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (3-R) and Colombia's President Gustavo Petro (2-R) among fellow leaders at the CELAC Summit in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Randy Brooks/AFP)
U.S. anti-drug policies have caused a "genocide" of Latin Americans, Colombia's Gustavo Petro alleged Friday at a meeting of regional leaders on the Caribbean island of St Vincent and the Grenadines.
"We have lived through a genocide of a million Latin Americans in the last half-century," the Colombian president told the annual summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
He blamed the United States for basing its drug strategy on "repression" and not on "prevention and public health."
"The result could not be more dramatic, more failed," Petro, the first leftist president of Colombia -- which is the world's largest cocaine producer and exporter -- told the summit in Kingstown.
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