Colombia's New President Gustavo Petro Set to Reshape Drug Laws
By Socalj 7/26/2022 11:27:00 AM
Gustavo Petro, the recently elected president of Colombia, is preparing an initiative with the purpose of achieving peace in his country, subjected for decades to the empire of drug trafficking and guerrillas. With the latter, important steps were taken five years ago, but criminal organizations generate a good part of the violence in that country, and Petro is considering sitting down to negotiate legal proceedings with them in which the drug traffickers win, achieving less severe penalties and Colombia wins by returning to peace
He has a whole plan, as we read in an interesting note published by the magazine Proceso last week and, although he expects resistance, he is willing to carry it out. The president-elect starts from the conviction that the war on drugs has been a failure and that other methods must be implemented to decriminalize the country and achieve the peace that is demanded. This is possible? It will be seen, but the truth is that they will try above the table and we will know the results.
The fight against drug trafficking is a problem that the country has had for more than 50 years and a challenge for the elected Head of State Gustavo Petro. The leader of the Historical Pact who obtained a vote of more than 11 million votes will have to face a country that has produced, according to DEA data, more than 1,000 tons of cocaine in the last 10 years.
Precisely Felipe Tascón, who is in charge of directing the Petro government's joint team on drug issues, pointed out the importance of generating a different approach to the policy of fighting drug trafficking, taking into account" the historical problem of drugs, but they talk about the problems that the prohibition of drugs has generated,” he told radio station La W.
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