US Politics
The Colombia-US Drug War Crisis: A Fifty-Year Failure of Policy and Principle
The United States and Colombia are locked in an escalating dispute over boat strikes targeting drug smugglers, with President Trump accusing Colombia's President Gustavo Petro of being an 'illegal drug leader' and Petro responding that Trump 'deserves nothing but jail'. This dangerous rhetoric undermines diplomatic relations and threatens to escalate a failed drug war that has devastated Colombia for half a century without producing lasting results.
