Colombian President Petro Calls the Drug War a Genocide in Meeting with AMLO

[Judi Lynn]

By Socalj 9/10/2023 01:12:00 PM




President Gustavo Petro, during his speech at the closing of the Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Drugs, that the 50 years of fighting against drugs has produced a genocide in the peoples of Latin America. He stated that these countries are victims and not the victimizers, as the US and Europe portray them to be.

“There is a purpose for Latin America to speak for itself and not repeat the official discourses of world power, on this specific issue, that we can, starting from, because we lived the experience, we are living it, 50 years in the case of Colombia, which is where it begins and that is now an American problem, in every sense of the word, in the Americas. But we have that experience of 50 years, a bloody and ferocious experience and it has begun to be repeated for a few decades in some countries, such as Mexico, so, perhaps the fact that Colombia and Mexico are the organizers of this meeting, has a meaning, a value on planet Earth, in humanity, because we are the biggest victims of this policy and I begin by underlining the word victims, not victimizers.”

Petro also warned that the countries' producers are victims of the decisions of consumer countries, producing, in five decades of war, a genocide in the Latin American peoples:

“In the 50 years, they have pointed us out as victimizers, and there has been so much fear of world power, of our political leading layers, that then the only thing we have done is, in a shameful way, because we know what happens in our countries. We censor ourselves because we are afraid of being told that we are allied with drug trafficking.

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