In a new presidential speech Gustavo Petro referred to several topics on the night of this Friday, October 17, including the central axis that was drug trafficking in the country and the figures; but he also noted that the Colombian police “are going to change. The director has done a good job but we are going to make a change. The issue of Amalfi, of the police officers who killed“It is a complicated issue there. “The report needs to be delivered regarding the police officers who killed in Medellín,” and he maintained that there cannot be ‘parapolices’ there.
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“The Police that we are going to have is a Police capable of capturing the (criminal) gang, but also that can shake the hand of the young man, and I hope that the Prosecutor’s Office that we have – once those captured are handed over – has nothing to do with the politician who has relations with the gangs in these types of cities,” Petro added.
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The president also referred to the issue of fentanyl consumption in the United States and maintained that this internal issue is claiming thousands of lives. On the other hand, he also talked about “greed for oil” is what has caused “missiles to be sent on fishermen”, and many have been sent in the history of the country.
In that same thread, the president made a request to his American counterpart: “I ask President Trump to contain his oil greed; think about efficiency, think of a great America where the people who inhabit the Americas, from Alaska to Patagonia; Through dialogue and arguments we can overcome the problems.”
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On the other hand, he indicated that “that Los Soles cartel should be given the name that is true, which is the cartel of the Drug Trafficking Board, it has its origin in the Bogotá cartelin the third man of Pablo Escobar’s organization, Mr. Lozano… One of them was going to assassinate me, which is Mr. Arroyave […]”.
Anti-drug policy
The president pointed out that his policy is to seize the cocaine “not burn the farmers’ ranch. It is to take the cocaine made at sea, in the ports, on the roads, without affecting the farmers.”
“In these two years (2023 and 2024) we have seized the largest amount of cocaine in the world in a single country, in Colombia“He added. For this reason, he said that he will subject all drug policy to human rights.
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In addition, the head of state questioned the decertification of Colombia, in its fight against drugs, which generates tension in bilateral relations with the US: “Why did they decertify us if we have shown that we are the Government that has seized the most coca leaf crops in the history of the world? Why…? It is not because of these data. “It must be said how much cocaine is brought through Venezuela to reach the United States, which is 4 or 5% of the total cocaine that Colombia still takes out.”
Likewise, the president asserted that the highest productivity of the coca leaf is precisely in Naya, Micay, It leaves through the main port in Tumaco and Buenaventura. “We have managed to reduce the contraband that enters through there“, for which the president questioned where this type of drug exports are going, stating that Ecuador is currently “a cocaine export platform” and said that this is not good news.
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“This is a problem for Ecuador,” which is why he stated that He asked the Colombian Police (Intelligence) to integrate with that of the neighboring country so that they can deal with this situation..
The president said that it is important to integrate the police and intelligence of Venezuela and Colombia so that they work together and can prevent drugs from continuing to leave the northeast of the country.
The president referred to hitmen, explaining that it is the act of paying to kill, and maintained that this “has to do with drug trafficking, with child trafficking, with where cocaine is exported. Barranquilla, Santa Marta, Cartagena… violence enters here through the ports, but it is not carried out by the farmers who grow coca leaves, it is carried out by the mafia, by the gang that is linked to political forces in Colombia. In Pereira there is the highest homicide rate. “Bogotá does not have, as the mayor (Galán) says, the highest homicide rate.”
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Likewise, he said that the peace policy must vary, because – he argued – the victims are generally young people who do not have access to opportunities to improve their quality of life but are a vulnerable population.
VALENTINA DELGADILLO ABELLO
Portfolio Journalist
