Colombia's peace process 'essential' to fight drug trafficking: US

[Judi Lynn]

by Adriaan Alsema March 15, 2021

Colombia’s peace process is “essential” for the US government’s counternarcotics efforts in the country, embassy officials told newspaper El Tiempo.

Two US Embassy officials said that the counternarcotics policy of President Joe Biden will go hand in hand with the implementation of a 2016 peace deal with former guerrilla group FARC, El Tiempo reported on Sunday.

Biden’s Colombian counterpart, President Ivan Duque, has been reluctant to implement the peace process that has been fiercely opposed by Duque’s far-right Democratic Center party.

Duque’s Defense Minister Diego Molano and his predecessors have been pursuing a hardline counternarcotics strategy that focused mainly on the forced eradication of coca and the resumption of the aerial spraying of coca.

More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-peace-process-essential-to-fight-drug-trafficking-us/

[abqtommy]

1. I've long thought that if there were no market for street drugs then there wouldn't be

any street drug trafficking. At its basic level, it's a people problem.

[Judi Lynn]

2. How else could the private prison industry survive! 😠

[abqtommy]

3. Well, we've gotta have someplace to put all the insurrectionists after their fair and

speedy trials and convictions! There's lots of room right now at Gitmo but I think we'll
need more space than that!