During the broadcast of the Council of Ministers on Monday, President Gustavo Petro said that the United States government made the determination to discertify Colombia in the fight against drug trafficking.
“The United States rerusted us, after dozens of deaths of police, soldiers, common people, trying to prevent cocaine from arriving. Everything we really do does not have to do with the Colombian people, but to prevent American society from embodying their noses,”said the president.
Shortly after the head of state made the announcement, the US Department of State. published a memorandum signed by US President Donald Trump in which the withdrawal of this guarantee was confirmed by breach in the commitments in anti -drug matters.
According to the document, Colombia joins Afghanistan, Bolivia, Burma and Venezuela as countries that have “Falted demonstrable during the last 12 months both in complying with its obligations under the international agreements to fight drug trafficking and to take the required measures” According to US legislation.
This is the first time that Washington Choose the anti -narcotics struggle of the national territory since 1996. The decision, according to the US government, responds in part to the fact that “The cultivation of coca and cocaine production have reached record levels under the presidency of Gustavo Petro, and their failed attempts to seek agreements with narco -terrorist groups have only exacerbated the crisis.”
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Stop dependent on the US armament.
Colombian president Gustavo Petro said Monday that The military forces of their country will stop depending on the United States weaponsafter announcing that in a supposedly “policy”Washington described Colombia in the anti -drug fight.
“The dependency of the Colombian army and its military forces of the United States Armament is over. No more alms or gifts. They already redeemed, that is the decision. The Colombian army is better if you buy their weapons or do them with our own resources, because if not, it will not be an army of national sovereignty”Petro said in a televised council of ministers.
The president added that as part of that order, “Police lords stop buying glock guns”as used in The recent murder of the senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbayalthough that weapon is actually of Austrian manufacture.
The descertification would limit access to technical cooperation and support in international organizations such as IDB, IMF and World Bank.
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“That is political”
The president said that US “From all history” And he added that “That is political.”
“The friends of the Colombian right, they do linked to drug trafficking, ate stories to the right -wing officials of the United States because they believe more in ideology than in effectiveness,” He added when he tried to explain the apparent reasons for desactification.
Certification is an evaluation that the United States does every year since 1986 on anti -narcotics efforts of about twenty producing countries.
Donald Trump’s government decided to eliminate Colombia from the list of countries fighting drug trafficking for having “Manifestly breached” In the last year its obligations under the international anti -narcotics agreements, according to a statement from the State Department.
“The cultivation of coca and cocaine production have reached historical records under the presidency of Gustavo Petro and his failed attempts to reach agreements with the narco -terrorist groups have only exacerbated the crisis”the statement added.
Despite this, the Trump government determined that it will maintain assistance to Colombia because it is “Vital to the national interests of the United States.”
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In this regard, Petro said: “The descertification does not imply sanctions, it comes out without sanctions, so we are going to measure the effect. But it literally comes out, without sanctions.”
This in fear that the US decision would affect cooperation to face posters such as the Gulf Clan and guerrillas dedicated to drug trafficking such as the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the dissidents of the FARC that did not accept the 2016 Peace Agreement.
Despite the binding, Colombia insists that it is giving results in anti -drug policy and underlines that in 2024 889 tons of cocaine were seized, the “Greater (quantity) reached by the country in a year and one of the largest reported in the world”the Director of the Police, General Carlos Fernando Triana, stood out today in a statement.
Colombia was last bounded in 1996 and 1997during the government of Ernesto Samper,
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