Why Is the White House Targeting Gustavo Petro?

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More than five decades ago Washington used the narrative of the "war on drugs" but it has worked more as a manual of intervention and geopolitical control over Latin America than as a solution to the global problem of narcotic substances. It is a paradigm based primarily on militarization and forced eradication that has left a trail of violence, political instability and human rights violated, while the business of drug trafficking adapts and fl…

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Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday asked his supporters to send letters to the U.S. government asking them to lift the sanctions imposed against him for alleged accusations of links to drug trafficking.