President Gustavo Petro said that “National sovereignty exists“, in response to The secret order that, according to The New York Times, signed The American president, Donald Trump, instructing al Pentagon to use military force against drug trafficking posters in Latin America.
“Trump is already saying that he sends his planes to bombard and we have to think what we are going to do because then he will come to bomb Colombia. We do not do it because the children already killed the bombs, and now he will come?“Petro said during the delivery of 6,500 hectares of land to peasants from the Caribbean Department of Córdoba.
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Then, the president added: “A national discussion problem. I am not going to pronounce yet, but national sovereignty exists and I prefer to speak and coordinate what to impose. That cannot be imposed“
Donald Trump and Gustavo Petro
Trump’s order
Petro’s statements occurred on Friday, August 8, after The New York Times will reveal the existence of a secret order signed by Trump against drug cartels in Latin America, which would be the most aggressive measure adopted so far by its administration.
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According to the New York newspaper, The presidential order would provide a legal basis for the US armed forces to carry out direct and unilateral military operations in foreign territory against posters.
Even, according to the sources, which spoke under anonymity, the US high military command would have already begun to prepare plans on how to carry out these actions.
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The decision to attack these groups would be framed within Trump’s fight against Fentanil’s traffic, A synthetic opioid that, according to Washington, is mainly produced by Mexican posters through chemicals from China and trafficked to the United States, which suffers a serious crisis of overdose deaths of that substance.
In February, Trump’s government declared several Latin American posters, but none Colombian, although shortly before The New York Times He had revealed a list that included Gulf clan, The most powerful armed group in Colombia and currently in dialogues with the Petro government.
Drug trafficking
La Paz ‘cannot be imposed’
In his speech, Petro highlighted the need to talk about “If possible in Colombia, drug trafficking peacefully dismantles so that there is peace“
But the president insisted that this dismantling “cannot be imposed. We already know, we have been in them for 50 years, 50 years and a million dead killed in Latin America (by drug trafficking), a war“
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Colombia is the main world cocaine producer And, according to the latest annual report of the United Nations Office against Drugs and Crime (UNODC), it concentrates 253,000 of the 376,000 hectares of coca leaf crops in the world, that is, two thirds.
Drug trafficking and other illicit economies such as illegal mining and logging constitute the main source of financing of armed groups outside the law in the South American country, including the Gulf clan and guerrillas such as the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the dissidents of the FARC.
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EFE
