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Colombia’s first left-wing president, Gustavo Petro, launched a heavy charge on Tuesday, September 20 at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, against what he considers to be the failure of strategies to fight against drugs and deforestation, advocating for environmental protection. Three areas in which he is trying to position himself as a leader of the subcontinent, notes the daily Time.
The ex-guerrilla of M-19, a movement demobilized since 1990, notably drew a parallel between the “poisons” of CO emissions2 uncontrolled and cocaine trafficking:
“Which is more toxic to human beings, cocaine or coal and oil? […] The dictates of power [mondial] ordered cocaine to be the poison and to be continued, even if