Colombia's peace process 'essential' to fight drug trafficking: US [View all]
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.
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