President Gustavo Petro and the nation’s Attorney General Francisco Barbosa had a new exchange of words and points of view, after the latter expressed his opposition to some reforms of the national government of Colombia.
Colombian News.
“They have presented proposals to legalize the drug trafficking chain in Colombia,” said Francisco Barbosa, in a speech presented at an international seminar in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. And President Gustavo Petro, has stepped forward.
According to Barbosa, his position is that this idea “does not represent Colombia or Colombians.”
What the public official said would be guided by the proposal of the reforms of prison humanization and submission to justice, of the government of change.
President Gustavo Petro came up to him through his Twitter account, who stated that this was “a true slander.”
It must be remembered that the peasants “of this sheet are part of the production chain”, therefore he did not hesitate to emphasize that, “The prosecutor confuses coca leaf growers with drug traffickers”.
This is a real slander. No one in Colombia has proposed legalizing cocaine. The prosecutor confuses coca leaf growers with drug traffickers, which is why the jails are filled with peasants and the drug traffickers fly around in helicopters. https://t.co/nYGetRqvxP
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) March 29, 2023
Allow coca cultivation
There are many occasions on which President Gustavo Petro has been energetic with his position on the confrontation in the “war on drugs.”
In one of his speeches on December 16, 2022, he said that peasants should continue planting coca while they see how efficient substitute crops can be.
That is why from the first day of his term he said that the fight against illicit crops would be with a “peasant vision.”
It seems that the anti-drug policy of the national government would go in another direction, since prior to the December 2022 declarations, the Minister of Justice, Néstor Osuna, said that “our drug policy does not include the legalization of cocaine.”
However, they do not rule out that “this change in the world will one day be built and that it will have a regime similar to that of alcohol.”
But in the same way, he was clear warning that “the government of Colombia he is not interested”.
It should be remembered that a few days ago, Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador, informed President Petro that close to 1.2 tons of cocainefrom Colombia, and that would be valued at 30 million dollars.
In addition, that two Colombians were among those captured.
